{"id":1004188721,"date":"2017-08-28T06:00:06","date_gmt":"2017-08-28T14:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/?p=1004188721"},"modified":"2022-12-02T21:53:21","modified_gmt":"2022-12-03T05:53:21","slug":"german-automotive-supplier-to-open-sc-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/german-automotive-supplier-to-open-sc-operations\/","title":{"rendered":"German Auto Supplier to Enter SC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Laura Calugar<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1004188722\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2017\/08\/Capture2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1004188722\" data-attachment-id=\"1004188722\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/german-automotive-supplier-to-open-sc-operations\/capture-123\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2017\/08\/Capture2.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1231,730\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Laura Calugar&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1503922940&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Capture\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2017\/08\/Capture2.jpg?w=1024\" class=\"wp-image-1004188722 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2017\/08\/Capture2.jpg\" alt=\"bo parts GmbH's new production facility in Greer, S.C. \" width=\"300\" height=\"178\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2017\/08\/Capture2.jpg 1231w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2017\/08\/Capture2.jpg?resize=300,178 300w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2017\/08\/Capture2.jpg?resize=768,455 768w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2017\/08\/Capture2.jpg?resize=1024,607 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1004188722\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">bo parts GmbH&#8217;s new production facility in Greer, S.C.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>bo parts GmbH, a supplier to the automotive industry and part of the FRIMO Group, plans to launch new operations in Greer, S.C. The new development is projected to bring $4.1 million of capital investment and create 100 new jobs over the next five years.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Located at 129 Metro Court in Greer, S.C., the 60,000-square-foot facility will be fewer than eight miles from Interstate 85 and approximately 12 miles from Greenville, S.C. Headquartered in Germany, bo parts specializes in small-batch production. The company provides tailor-made solutions and production of service parts, low-volume production parts, sample parts, prototypes and exotic parts.<\/p>\n<h2>An expanding industry<\/h2>\n<p>The Coordinating Council for Economic Development has approved a $100,000 job development credit related to this project.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWith our new facility, we can continue the global growth of our business in the low-volume manufacturing of service and production parts for our automotive tier one and tier two customers. We are currently completing the launch of our first program for BMW and are in discussion on additional programs with several customers,\u201d<\/em> said FRIMO Group GmbH CEO Hans-G\u00fcnter Bayer, in a prepared statement.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/german-automotive-supplier-to-invest-69m-in-sc-plant\/\">South Carolina\u2019s automotive industry<\/a> is expanding. Recently, another German supplier announced its intention to build a 234,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Summerville.<\/p>\n<p><em>Image via Google Earth <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>bo parts GmbH intends to build a 60,000-square-foot production facility in Greer. The $4.1 million investment is projected to create 100 new jobs by 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":1004188722,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21782,21748,21783,13,21742],"tags":[33071,37380,36882],"class_list":["post-1004188721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-development","category-industrial","category-investment","category-midwest","category-latest","tag-bmw","tag-frimo-group","tag-ifa"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.0 (Yoast SEO v28.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>German Auto Supplier to Enter SC - Commercial Property Executive<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/german-automotive-supplier-to-open-sc-operations\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"German Auto Supplier to Enter SC\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"bo parts GmbH intends to build a 60,000-square-foot production facility in Greer. 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