Integrated Manufacturing and Assembly, (IMA) a joint venture between minority business enterprise Comer Holdings and Lear Corporation, plans to establish a new 123,000 square-foot plant in Columbia City, Indiana, to supply seating systems to a major automaker.

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Production at the new facility will launch in November 2006 and provide up to 260 new jobs for the region.


In addition to IMA, Comer Holdings and Lear have established CL Automotive, a second joint venture.


The two combined have annual sales of about $US365m and employ 1,100 people at operations in Brownstown and Highland Park, Michigan; Newark, Delaware; and Berne, Indiana.

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