Koyo is located on 13 acres in the Battle Creek, MI ‘Fort Custer’ industrial park. Fort Custer was one of the largest U.S. Army training facilities in North America during WWI and WWII. Much of what used to be part of the active military training ground was turned over for civilian purposes in the 1980’s. Koyo’s building is 113,000 sq. feet with an additional leased building adjacent to the main facility with over 58,000 sq. feet for fabrication, raw material storage and service part/niche part production.

Koyo is conveniently located for transportation access to Interstate 94 and only 30 minutes from Interstate 69. Battle Creek, MI is most known for Kellogg’s, Post and Ralston Purina cereals. As the local cereal facilities began to age and the population boom of cereal eating kids grew up into the age of the morning rush, traffic jams with cup holders filled with steaming coffee travel mugs. The cereal giants began to fade into a familiar American industry downfall. Battle Creek planning groups headed by ‘Battle Creek Unlimited’ and James Hedinger worked to attract Japanese automotive companies in the newly annexed land in Fort Custer. One of the first companies attracted to Battle Creek was Denso, then called ‘Nippondenso.’ Denso attracted many affiliate Japanese companies to come into ‘the fort’ area and eventually Battle Creek made a tremendous economic recovery. Even though the news media is painting a bleak picture of the automotive industry in Michigan, the mid Michigan automotive suppliers to the North American Japanese transplants continue to see nearly a 2-4% yearly growth!