Nexteer To Build Smart Factory In Suzhou, China

Nexteer Automotive, a shaper of mobility power technologies, has signed a memorandum of knowing (MoU) pinch nan administrative committee of Suzhou Industrial Park to found its Suzhou Smart Manufacturing Project.

Under nan MoU, Nexteer will get 10 hectares of onshore successful Suzhou to build a smart manufacturing base, connected which astir 70,000 quadrate meters of buildings will beryllium constructed. Upon completion, Nexteer will relocate operations from its existent leased installation successful Suzhou to nan caller site.

The installation will beryllium utilized to nutrient Nexteer’s merchandise portfolio which supports by-wire chassis control, including electrical powerfulness steering systems, steer-by-wire and rear-wheel steering systems, driveline systems, package solutions and brake-by-wire technologies.

Since establishing operations successful Suzhou successful 2007, Nexteer has steadily accrued its investments successful nan section area – from manufacturing plants and its APAC Technical Center, to its APAC Headquarters. This caller smart manufacturing task marks nan adjacent measurement successful Nexteer’s location optimisation strategy.

The caller Suzhou works will beryllium designed and constructed utilizing principles of what nan institution refers to arsenic ‘intelligence + green’, combining high-standard accommodation pinch intelligent accumulation lines. It will accelerate nan digitalisation and sustainability of Nexteer’s manufacturing processes while importantly expanding capacity for mobility power technologies.

“Signing this MoU for Nexteer’s Suzhou Smart Manufacturing Project is simply a cardinal milestone successful our China and broader APAC maturation strategy,” said Li Jun, world vice president and APAC section president, Nexteer Automotive.

“Suzhou and nan Yangtze River Delta region connection abundant resources, outstanding talent and a mature proviso concatenation – a beardown instauration for Nexteer’s future. We will besides proceed to leverage section invention pinch world collaboration crossed Nexteer to present precocious steering and mobility power solutions astatine ‘China speed’ for our world and home customers.”

This MoU for nan Suzhou installation follows respective caller commitments by Nexteer, including opening a new smart manufacturing and testing installation successful Changshu, China in January 2025; breaking crushed successful July 2025 connected a new smart manufacturing installation successful Liuzhou, China to grow home and world OEM support, which is expected to beryllium afloat operational successful 2026; breaking crushed connected an description of its Mexico Technical Center in Querétaro, expected to beryllium afloat operational by Q4 2025; and nan continuing transformation of its Saginaw, Michigan, US site via works consolidation, existent property optimisation and modernisation of operations.