Linamar will spend about $40m and double the size of its workforce in Northern Kentucky (by 138 jobs,) adding new equipment to its existing 360,000 sq ft facility to make engine parts for both Ford and Chrysler.

Production should start in 2012.

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The Kentucky Economic Development Finance Authority has offered Eagle Manufacturing, a division of Linamar, tax incentives worth up to $4.5m through the Kentucky Business Investment programme.

Linamar CEO Linda Hasenfratz said, “Eagle Manufacturing will add capacity in our growing automotive business, and give us advanced manufacturing capabilities in an important region central to many of our customers.”

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