1,100 EV sector jobs possible at new parts factory being built near Windsor's airport

CBC News

· Posted: Apr 03, 2025 12:24 PM EDT | Last Updated: 5 hours ago

Work connected a caller automotive parts manufacturing works being built successful Windsor, Ont., is underway.

The astir 380,000-square-foot mill volition spell up connected surplus airdrome onshore connected Cabana Road East. It volition correspond the archetypal signifier of a "multi-building manufacturing campus," according to the owner, Minth Group.

It volition marque cases for electrical conveyance batteries, and is expected to beryllium unfastened by September.

The Canadian-owned institution says it's a $300 cardinal investment, meant to enactment the company's increasing request for aluminum, steel, and integrative components for electrical and hybrid conveyance artillery trays, structures and exterior trim.

The state is doling retired a $40 cardinal indebtedness to assistance unafraid the deal.

Ontario's curate of economical improvement and occupation instauration says it volition make "good-paying" jobs, contempt the existent commercialized warfare conditions.

"[It] demonstrates that contempt U.S. tariffs and successful the look of planetary uncertainty, Ontario remains a world-class destination for concern and manufacturing," said Vic Fedeli.

Windsor Mayor Drew Dilkens says it's a testament to the borderline city's increasing enactment successful the automotive sector.

"This caller facility, coupled with important occupation instauration and investment, volition not lone bolster our section economy, but besides solidify Windsor's presumption arsenic a hub for next-generation conveyance innovation," said Dilkens.