The BorgWarner Kokomo Technical Center. Photo provided
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KOKOMO — Automotive supplier giant BorgWarner is closing its Noblesville location, laying off some employees and moving the rest to its Kokomo operations, the Indianapolis Business Journal reports.
The company said the transition began last October but will be complete by the end of this year, with 21 employees of the company’s Noblesville Technical Center expected to lose their jobs and the rest being moved to the Kokomo Technical Center, 2151 E. Lincoln Road.
“BorgWarner is restructuring to adapt its cost structure in order to remain competitive in the current environment, including the closure, or consolidation of manufacturing and/or technical centers in all major regions,” Michelle Collins, global director of marketing and public relations for the company, said to IBJ in an email.
The company opened the Noblesville Technical Center, located at the southeast corner of 141st Street and Olio Road near I-69, in 2018 for $15 million. The company consolidated its Pendleton and Anderson locations to the 100,000-square-feet, two-story building. At the time, the company said it would employ more than 300 at the Noblesville Technical Center.
In 2020, BorgWarner acquired Delphi Technologies and with it, the 410,000-square-feet Kokomo Technical Center, where employees develop products such as electronics, inverters, sensors and more.
With the eventual closure of the Noblesville Technical Center, the Kokomo Technical Center will be BorgWarner’s sole Indiana facility.
In 2023, BorgWarner closed its Morgan Street Production Plant, 1501 E. 200 North, affecting some 150 employees. The company cited “market-driven adjustments to adapt its cost structure in order to remain competitive in the current environment” for the closure.
The Morgan Street facility was purchased by Korean electric vehicle supplier Sang-A America last year for $10.1 million.
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