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Hino Motors Manufacturing U.S.A., Inc. is the commercial truck division of Toyota Motors Corp., producing medium-duty trucks for the U.S. market. Hino assembles medium-duty trucks in West Virginia. The truck assembly plant opened in Williamstown in 2007. The company expanded its workforce and workspace several times over the years. In 2017, Hino and state officials

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Since it was founded in Spain in 1997, Gestamp has grown from a small local stamping company to a global presence in more than 20 countries. In 2012, the auto parts manufacturer opened a stamping plant in South Charleston, West Virginia. The multinational company has ramped up its workforce and the number of hot and

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Diamond Electric produces ignition coils for automotive manufacturers such as Chrysler, Ford and Toyota. The company has operations in Diamond opened its first manufacturing plant in West Virginia in 1997. Since then, the company has expanded the facility multiple times, making the West Virginia operations the company’s largest production facility in the world.

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Touchstone Research Laboratory specializes in fast development of innovative goods and services, failure analysis and testing. The company’s products include CFOAM: a carbon foam made from coal; MetPreg, fiber reinforced aluminum; CEASe blast energy absorbing system; composite tooling technologies; high strength/high temperature aluminum alloys; and other innovations.

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Collins Aerospace, a unit of United Technologies Corp., is a leader in technologically advanced and intelligent solutions for the global aerospace and defense industry.

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