Dana Corporation has announced that it will integrate its global traction technologies and torque management businesses in an effort to streamline and maximise the combined benefits of these units.
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The businesses will form the new Dana Torque and Traction Technologies Group, which had combined 2001 sales of approximately $US3 billion.
In conjunction with this effort, the operations will integrate their divisional headquarters and global engineering, research, and development centres in a new Automotive Systems Group Technology Centre to be located in the Northwest Ohio/Southeast Michigan region.
Construction of the new facility — which will also house and integrate a broad range of Automotive Systems Group disciplines — will begin this summer and is expected to conclude by the end of 2003.
The new Automotive Systems Group Technology Centre will be home to Dana’s World Centre of Axle Technology and several related operations currently located in Fort Wayne, Indiana, as well as the company’s World Centre of Driveshaft Technology, now located in Holland, Ohio.
The facility will also accommodate a variety of Automotive Systems Group resources, including significant engineering, sales and marketing, and information technology operations.
The relocation of Dana’s light axle people will be a two-stage process consisting of an initial move of 150 people into a temporary facility this year and a second relocation phase upon completion of the new facility in 2003.
The moves will ultimately result in the addition of approximately 300 jobs to the Northwest Ohio/Southeast Michigan region, and the retention of approximately 200 jobs associated with Dana’s driveshaft operations in Holland.
The new facility will consist of 90,000 square-feet of design and development space, and an additional 80,000 square-feet for offices and potential future expansion.
The new facility will feature an advanced prototype and manufacturing/assembly area; three-dimensional computer modelling and testing capabilities; real-time video and network resources providing direct linkage to manufacturing facilities and customers; and a focused customer systems integration approach.
Together, Dana’s Torque and Traction Technologies Group consists of more than 65 facilities on six continents.
