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Denso announces another expansion

Hugh Cantrell, general manager of administrative services, holds a gasoline direct injection fuel injector while talking about items that are made at the Denso manufacturing plant in Athens, Tenn. Hugh Cantrell, general manager of administrative services, holds a gasoline direct injection fuel injector while talking about items that are made at the Denso manufacturing plant in Athens, Tenn.

By Wire Service January 28, 2015 1 min read

Staff walk through the Athens, Tenn., Denso Manufacturing plant in this file photo.

Auto parts supplier Denso Manufacturing is expected today to unveil its third plant expansion at its Athens, Tenn., plant in the last three years.

Gov. Bill Haslam, state Economic and Community Development Commissioner Randy Boyd and plant President Yoichi Yamashita are slated to take part in an announcement at 2 p.m.

Last January, Denso announced a $55 million expansion of the plant with plans to add 130 jobs. In January 2013, the company unfurled a $50 million expansion and creation of another 130 jobs. Denso employs more than 1,100 people in Athens, making oxygen sensors, ignition coils, monolithic carriers and spark plugs, and 14,000 countrywide.