Leading Japanese car parts maker, JTEKT, has inaugurated this Wednesday Oct.9 in the Tangier Automative City Zone its new steering systems production factory, worth $22.7 million. Executive Director of JTEKT Corporation, Hirofumi Matsuoka, said at the inauguration ceremony that this new plant in Tangier is JTEKT’s first industrial site on the African continent. He expressed the group’s ambition to expand further in order to become the leader in Africa in terms of steering systems production. The JTEKT group plant has created 90 jobs in the automotive industry and spare parts sector in Morocco. The manufacturing facility in Tangier named “JTEKT AUTOMOTIVE MOROCCO S.A.S.” will respond to the growth expectation of automobile industry in Morocco, the Japanese group had said when it announced plans to set up the factory in June 2017.

Source: The North Africa Journal October 09, 2019 16:52 UTC