Suspension producer THK Rhythm Automotive Canada Ltd. is the newest in a wave of Ontario suppliers investing in upgrades and retooling meant to hurry processes and meet more and more complicated necessities for automobile components.

The Canadian division of Tokyo-based international producer THK says it can spend $27 million to increase a plant in Tillsonburg, Ont., and add automated machining and meeting centres. The challenge is predicted so as to add 65 jobs in Tillsonburg and one other 35 at a THK plant in St. Catharines, Ont.

The corporate stated the crops will provide steering and linkage elements for upcoming initiatives at Toyota and Ford.

The Ontario authorities is contributing $1 million to the growth.

Earlier in November, ArcelorMittal Tailor-made Blanks introduced it can make investments $17.4 million in new gear and modifications at its plant in Woodstock, Ont., to provide door rings and tailor welded outer blanks.

Chief government Todd Baker stated the upgrades will permit the plant to provide a million door rings yearly for the electrical automobile market.

Ontario is chipping in $1.5 million for that challenge, which is predicted so as to add 32 jobs to a present workforce of 53.

Father or mother ArcelorMittal is the world’s second-largest steelmaker and operator of the Dofasco mills in Hamilton, Ont.

The province can be offering $1.2 million to ZF Automotive Canada, a part of the worldwide ZF Group, to help a $7.8-million improve at a stamping plant in Midland, Ont. The corporate stated it can add a trivalent chromium plating line with a “proprietary revolutionary chemical course of” that can permit it to satisfy the European market’s more and more strict environmental requirements.

The challenge will add 27 jobs.

Federal cash is supporting a Mississauga, Ont., firm’s bid to turn out to be a frontrunner within the manufacturing of high-purity aluminum oxide, a key element in solid-state batteries for electrical automobiles and different makes use of. The $4.1-million grant to Polar Sapphire Ltd. is the second funding by Sustainable Improvement Know-how Canada within the “clean-tech” firm.

Managed by personal fairness agency Ara Companions, Sapphire was based in 2012 and focuses on purifying aluminum oxide, often known as alumina and HPA, at decrease temperatures and with much less energy than current processes.