The factory will be near Bosch’s brake components plant.
Earlier today, the suppliers said in a release that they initially would invest €8 million in the location, where they will engineer and produce filters that will have a substrate made from cordierite ceramics.
When asked for the total investment, a Denso spokeswoman said in an e-mail that the figure was still under consideration.
Czyhin did not know which automakers would get the filters, but he said that they will not go to vehicle plants in the country run by General Motors (Gliwice), Fiat (Tychy) and Volkswagen (Poznan for light commercial vehicles).
The new joint venture will be called Advanced Diesel Particulate Filters (ADIF).
Bosch and Denso aim to start production in 2009.
Euro 5 emission rules are set to take effect September 1, 2009. The new standards will reduce allowed particulates to five micrograms per kilometer from 25.
The joint venture will be led by two directors: Denso’s Masakazu Tanaka and Bosch’s Teruo Komori.
Bosch is No. 1 and Denso ranks third on the Automotive News Europe list of the top 100 global suppliers. In 2006, the two companies had combined sales of more than $53.6 billion (€38.8 billion).
