Denso’s subsidiary in north eastern Japan is to expand an automotive air conditioner plant to support increasing vehicle production by Toyota.

Denso Higashinihon is to spend JPY8.7bn (US$88.4m) to manufacture engine cooling modules from May 2014 at its plant in Tamura, Fukushima Prefecture.

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The company plans to double the number of workers at the plant to around 220 by fiscal 2016, it said.

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