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Invented Lowcountry Life
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Bosch Workforce Makes Key Products for Automotive Systems

It wasn’t the Southern hospitality and sweet partner of the youth apprenticeship program
tea that brought Robert Bosch, LLC to the in 2014.
Lowcountry in 1974. It was a combination of a “Collaborations are key to workforce
pro-business environment, strategic location, and development,” said Katherine Bergmann,
trade accessibility, all of which have contributed to communication specialist at Bosch. “Our
Bosch’s thriving manufacturing division in North contributions to the workforce were successful
Charleston, and in turn an economic boom due to these collaborative efforts with our
in manufacturing within the region. local partners.”
Locating in the area 45 years ago, Bosch is the Bosch products like fuel injectors and
region’s largest private high-pressure pumps put
sector manufacturer and The North Charleston Bosch plant the power in a vehicle’s
the oldest international produces advanced automotive powertrain. These products
business. In the beginning products that save lives every day, support the company’s
stages, the plant employed like the Electronic Stability Program mission to create solutions

105 workers. Since then, modules (ESP) for automotive and to improve the quality
Bosch has invested more braking systems. of life worldwide with
than $625 million in connected products and
seven expansions and services that are innovative and that spark
now has more than 1,700 employees. enthusiasm or, in short, products that are
Not only has Bosch created an impact by “invented for life.”
expanding, investing, and providing jobs within Bosch continues to grow its presence within
the region, but the company is also an advocate the region. Additional expansions will take place
for educating the future workforce. The company over the next few years, including $175 million in
established an adult apprenticeship training investments and 150 new jobs.
program in the 1970s and was an inaugural ~by Dana Brown

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