Kayaba Industry Company Ltd, which claims to be the world’s largest original equipment supplier of shock absorbers, is opening a new factory at Pardubice in the Czech Republic – KYB Manufacturing Czech, s.r.o (KMCZ).

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The facility will start production in April 2006, employing over 200 people making OEM automotive shock absorbers. The new Czech plant will complement another factory near Pamplona in northern Spain.

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