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Auto Parts Supplier Opening $110M Plant

French company Plastic Omnium plans a ribbon-cutting Tuesday for the Inergy Automotive Systems facility, located in Wayne County near New Boston. The facility will produce about 1.5 million plastic fuel tanks a year.

NEW BOSTON, Mich. (AP) -- An auto parts supplier is opening a $110 million plant in suburban Detroit that will employ 400 workers.

French company Plastic Omnium plans a ribbon-cutting Tuesday for the Inergy Automotive Systems facility, located in Wayne County near New Boston.

Company officials are to be joined by state officials and others at the event. The facility will produce about 1.5 million plastic fuel tanks a year.

Inergy Automotive Systems is a subsidiary of Plastic Omnium, which makes automotive components and body modules, automotive fuel tanks and systems, and waste containers.