- New location in Plymouth Township, near Detroit, Michigan
- Capital expenditure of €30 million
- Technical Centre to develop driver assistance and safety systems

The Bosch Group has opened a new technical centre in Plymouth Township, Michigan. Built at a cost of $37.5 million (€30 million) and with a total floor space of approximately 21,000 square meters, the new building will provide jobs for more than 400 researchers and developers. Their work will focus on driver assistance and safety systems, such as ACC - the adaptive cruise control system – for the North American automotive market.

With this investment, the Bosch Group is further bolstering its international presence and, at the same time, adding to its global development and application engineering network for automotive technology, which already comprises more than 50 technical centres.

Peter Marks of the Bosch board of management responsible for the Americas, said, "The additional capacity of the new technical centre will help us to achieve our long-term growth targets for automotive technology in North America.”

The new technical centre in Plymouth Township complements the development facilities of nearby Farmington Hills, which is also the North American headquarters of the Automotive Technology business sector. In North America, Bosch employs 25,000 people across more than 80 locations. In 2006, Bosch Group sales in the North American market came to €7 billion.

Bosch media enquiries:

Chris Wakley / David Eden
Automotive PR
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7494 8050
Email: cwakley@automotivepr.com / deden@automotivepr.com

Bosch OE enquiries:
Jenny Hodge
Communications Manager
Robert Bosch Limited
Tel: +44 (0) 1895 838545
Email: jenny.hodge@uk.bosch.com

About Bosch
The Bosch Group is the world’s largest provider of automotive technology to all leading vehicle and component manufacturers. 

In 2006, the company generated automotive sales of €27.2 billion and employs approximately 161,000 people in this sector.  The key business areas include: fuel injection technology (diesel & petrol); systems for active and passive vehicle safety (brakes, ABS, traction control, ESP, control units for restraint systems); electrical motors, rotating electrics and products for car multimedia.

Additional information can be accessed at http://www.bosch.com/ and http://www.bosch.co.uk/