The Timken Co., a major manufacturer of automotive bearings, said Thursday it will put 110 engineers in a new research facility at the International Center for Automotive Research, the automotive research park that Clemson University is developing in Greenville.
Timken, which already has five factories in the Upstate, said it will combine product engineering for its powertrain products, now located in Torrington, Conn., and process engineering for the same business, now in Norcross, Ga., at the ICAR campus along Interstate 85.
Jacqui Dedo, president of Timken's Automotive Group, said the move "will strengthen our technical team, enhancing the products and services we can offer our customers."
Clemson said the engineers will be housed in a new building that The Furman Co., a Greenville real estate company, will build at ICAR, near a BMW research center and a Clemson graduate school of automotive engineering.
Bob Geolas, ICAR's executive director, said the building housing the Timken engineers will be in addition to two other multi-tenant buildings The Furman Co. has agreed to develop as part of ICAR's first phase.