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Amcast Industrial Corp., Western Atlas Inc. and Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. announce plans to expand. Amcast will build a new, $25 million, 200,000-sq.-ft. (18,580-sq.-m) aluminum suspension components plant in Wapakonetta, OH. Western Atlas will build a new manufacturing systems facility in Fenton, MI, for its Michigan Machine & Engineering Div. Cooper Tire will spend $112 million to expand warehousing and tire production at sites in Findley, OH; Tupelo, MS; and Albany, GA.
