Construction of Volkswagen’s auto assembly plant in Chattanooga continues to accelerate with a pair of projects moving ahead, officials said today.
An Illinois company has won a $3.64 million contract to do electrical work on the heating and cooling building for Volkswagen’s planned auto assembly plant.
Schneider Electrical Inc. of Palatine, Ill., was awarded the contract by the city’s Industrial Development Board.
City Engineer Bill Payne said the company has an office in Nashville that will perform much of the work and Lawson Electric locally is expected to be a subcontractor on the project.
Meanwhile, Steve Leach, Chattanooga’s public works administrator, said the city has begun talks with Gestamp Corp., the first tier one supplier to land in Hamilton County.
“We’ve started discussions about the project,” Mr. Leach said about the layout of the $90 million plant that is to go up near the VW plant site at Enterprise South industrial park and employ over 200 people within three years.
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It's great news that Lawson Electric is getting some of the local VW work. It's important even when contracts are awarded to outside firms that they take into consideration the ability of local companies to subcontract for parts of the contract for which they are qualified to do the work. It's good to see the Illinois firm recognized this and had a willingness to include a local company.