NGK Ceramics to invest $9.4M in latest Mooresville expansion

MOORESVILLE, N.C. — An international manufacturer with long-standing operations in the Charlotte region is once again expanding.

Mooresville and Iredell County recently approved incentives for NGK Ceramics USA Inc. to invest $9.4 million into its operations in the area. The company, which is a subsidiary of Japan-based NGK Insulators Ltd., operates a manufacturing facility on Mazeppa Road in Mooresville and has a warehouse at Mooresville Business Park East. The expansion will help to automate some of the company’s inspection lines and extrusion finishing areas.

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Town documents state that NGK’s new investment calls for the retention of 600 jobs.

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