The South Carolina automotive industry dates back to the early 1900s when Milliken & Company made fabric seats and roofs for Henry Ford’s automobiles. South Carolina’s network of more than 250 automotive manufacturing plants and ground-transportation-related companies and suppliers represents a major sector of the state’s economy and has been crucial in fueling South Carolina’s development. From Original Equipment Manufacturers to both Tier One and Tier Two suppliers, providing systems, sub-systems, components and materials, the South Carolina automotive industry is thriving.
More than 32,000 people work in ground transportation-related manufacturing and automotive plants in South Carolina and more work in other automotive-related businesses such as distribution and logistics. Plus, companies in other industries, from electronics to plastics to textiles, do business with automotive manufacturers in South Carolina. A recent study the University of South Carolina found that the state’s automotive and ground-transportation industry represents at least 85,000 full-time equivalent jobs, more than 5% of the state’s employment base.
Some of the state’s principal automotive manufacturing companies are:
2AM Group A Berger Akebono Brake Alcoa Mt Holly Alfmeier AMBAC International American LaFrance ArvinMeritor Ascend Performance Materials Associated Fuel Pump Systems Autoneum AVM Industries Behr Heat Transfer Benteler Automotive Berrang Borg Warner Torq Transfer Systems Boysen Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations Carlisle Tire & Wheel | Caterpillar Champion Laboratories Cooper-Standard Automotive Cummins Turbo Technologies DAA Dräxlmaier Automotive of America Dayco Products Drive Automotive Industries of America Inc. Eberspaecher Emitec Faurecia Federal-Mogul Fehrer Flexible Technologies Force Protection Inc. Fraenkische Freightliner Custom Chassis Gestamp GETRAG | Hengst Honda IAC Group IFA Rotorion Inergy Automotive Systems Inteva Products ITG Automotive Safety Johnson Controls JTEKT Kaydon KEMET Electronics Corp KoyoKS Gleitlager Lang-Mekra Lear Magna Michelin Newman Technology Performance Fibers Group | Pierburg Plastic Omnium PRETTL Pure Power Technologies (Navistar) Richard Fritz Robert Bosch Roechling Automotive Sage Automotive Interiors Schaeffler Sonoco Products Co. Spartanburg Steel Products Suminoe Textile TB Kawashima Timken US Engine Valve Wabtec Passenger Transit YH America South Carolina ZF |
Newsroom
Contact
To get more information on the automotive industry in South Carolina, we’re just a click or phone call away.
Photo Gallery
|
|
|
|
|
|