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Delphi Automotive Systems to Open Wholly-Owned Facility in Morocco

2 February 1999

Delphi Automotive Systems to Open Wholly-Owned Facility in Morocco

    TANGIERS, Morocco, Feb. 2 -- Delphi Automotive Systems
Packard Electric Division will open a wholly-owned facility in February here
for the production and assembly of wiring harnesses.
    "The plant will support local vehicle production as well as European
OEMs," according to David Burgner, European managing director of Delphi
Packard Systems.
    The facility is 25,000 square meters and located on approximately 70,000
square meters of property.
    Approximately 1,000 employees will be engaged at the plant in the first
year of production.  That number is expected to increase over the next three
years as production schedules grow.
    This is the second Delphi operation in this country.  Delphi Chassis
Systems has a facility near Casablanca.
    Delphi Automotive Systems, with headquarters in Troy, Mich., USA, is the
world's most diversified supplier of automotive components and systems.
Delphi has more than 200,000 employees and operates 169 wholly-owned
manufacturing sites, some 40 joint ventures and 27 technical centers in 37
countries.  Regional headquarters are located in Paris, Tokyo and Sao Paulo.
Delphi Packard Electric, a division of Delphi Automotive, is an automotive
components supplier and the world leader in automotive power and distribution
systems worldwide.  Delphi can be found on the Internet at
http://www.delphiauto.com.