A car parts manufacturing company in Metro Detroit is shifting gears on plans to build a new plant, and the CEO says tariffs are partially to blame.
Auburn Hills-based Lucerne International makes car and truck parts for companies like Stellantis. Right now, a lot of its manufacturing is done overseas in places like China.
“Quite a while ago, we said, OK, you know, we need to onshore, and we need to start producing here in the U.S., bring some manufacturing back home,” Buchzeiger said. “Our equipment, roughly, originally, it was somewhere between an $8-9 million investment in the equipment alone, and that’s went up so far, from what we can tell, close to $3 million in the business plan, which is a lot.”
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