What EnovaPremier makes

EnovaPremier is a tire and wheel assembly specialist. It does one thing and builds its whole operation around it: taking wheels and tires and turning them into complete, balanced, ready-to-install units that ship in sequence to automotive assembly lines. The company reports assembling more than 700,000 tire and wheel units a month and passing 100 million lifetime assemblies across its US plants.

The work is value-added sub-assembly rather than parts fabrication. EnovaPremier mounts and inflates tires, balances the finished units, installs valves and tire-pressure sensors, and sequences the assemblies so they arrive at an OEM plant in the exact order the line needs them. The company emphasizes warranty performance for noise, vibration, and harshness, the ride-quality measures that separate an acceptable wheel-and-tire set from a good one, and it calls out electric-vehicle assemblies as a distinct part of its book. Around the production it runs a business system it calls the EPIQ Way, built on four values it abbreviates RIDE: reliability, integrity, diversity, and excellence.

EnovaPremier operates five US sites: a corporate support center in Louisville, Kentucky, and assembly plants in Princeton, Indiana; Montgomery, Alabama; Charlotte, Michigan; and Paris, Kentucky. The plant map tracks the customer map, with sites placed near major vehicle assembly plants in the Midwest and Southeast.

Ownership and history

EnovaPremier was founded in 2007 by Edwin Rigaud, Jr., built on the assets of a tire and wheel assembly business the company traces back to 1995. It grew into one of the larger minority-owned suppliers in its niche, certified as a Minority Business Enterprise by the National Minority Supplier Development Council.

In 2026, EnovaPremier was acquired by James Group Inc., a Detroit-based automotive logistics and supply chain group with a 55-year history. James Group announced the deal on July 29, 2026, describing EnovaPremier as an extension of its business beyond logistics and transportation into value-added tire and wheel assembly. According to the acquirer, James Group now operates through three primary subsidiaries, including Renaissance Global Logistics, together generating over $1 billion in annual revenue. The combination pairs EnovaPremier's assembly-to-line capability with James Group's warehousing, consolidation, and sequencing operations, and keeps the business inside a large minority-owned enterprise.

The company does not publish audited financial figures, and as a subsidiary its results are not separately reported. Third-party databases model revenue in the range of $50 to $100 million, which should be read as an estimate rather than a disclosed number.

Certifications and quality

EnovaPremier states that it holds IATF 16949, the automotive-specific quality management standard, and ISO 14001 for environmental management, and it links to both certificates from its own site. The company does not publish certificate dates on the page, so these are reported here as current claims. It is also a certified Minority Business Enterprise through the NMSDC. Quality discipline is central to the pitch: the company frames its assembly process around zero-defect targets and warranty performance on noise, vibration, and harshness, the metrics OEM customers hold a wheel-and-tire supplier to.

Known customers

EnovaPremier names its major customers on its own About page. All four below are documented in the company's own published materials.

The plant footprint supports the customer list: a plant in Princeton, Indiana sits in the corridor of Toyota's Indiana operations and GM's Midwest plants, and the Montgomery, Alabama plant is in Hyundai's US manufacturing region. Sequencing and assembly-to-line work of this kind is tightly coupled to a nearby OEM plant, which is why tire and wheel assemblers cluster their sites around their customers.

Sourcing evidence

EnovaPremier's US import record reads exactly like a tire and wheel assembler's should. Across 90 sea-import bills of lading recorded from November 2015 through January 2025, the goods coming in are wheels, valves, and assembly-line machinery, the inputs of assembly, with finished sets going out by truck to domestic plants. The most active foreign suppliers:

The mix is telling. Maxion Wheels and Superior Industries are among the world's largest wheel makers; Omron supplies the tire-pressure-monitoring valves that go into every modern assembly; Schenck Rotec builds the balancing and inflation stations that a plant like this runs on. By HS chapter the record leads with vehicle parts and wheels (45 shipments), packaging and dunnage (32), and measuring and balancing machinery (10). Origins are concentrated in South Korea (48 shipments) and Spain (26), moving through Busan to Long Beach and through Barcelona to Norfolk. ImportYeti estimates cumulative ocean-freight spend at roughly $139,000 over the decade, an order-of-magnitude figure rather than an audited one.

Import activity has quieted: there were no recorded sea shipments in the trailing 12 months, and the last recorded shipment was in January 2025. For a domestic assembler that sources most of its wheels within North America, a quiet import lane is a sourcing choice, not a distress signal. Imports were always a minority channel here, used for specific wheel programs and capital equipment. Buyers weighing nearshoring will recognize the pattern: a US assembler close to its OEM customers, importing only the inputs it cannot economically source at home.

Coverage caveats: these are US ocean-freight records only. Truck and rail movements, including the finished assemblies EnovaPremier ships to nearby plants and any wheels sourced within North America, do not appear; all 90 shipments are consolidated house bills that may name freight intermediaries; and product categories come from declared manifest codes, which are noisy. Absence of a record is not evidence of absence.

Frequently asked questions

What does EnovaPremier make?

EnovaPremier is a tire and wheel assembly specialist. It mounts, inflates, and balances complete tire and wheel units, installs valves and tire-pressure sensors, and sequences the finished assemblies to arrive at automotive assembly lines in order. The company reports building more than 700,000 assemblies a month and over 100 million lifetime.

Who owns EnovaPremier?

EnovaPremier was acquired in 2026 by James Group Inc., a Detroit-based automotive logistics and supply chain group with a 55-year history and over $1 billion in annual group revenue. The company was founded in 2007 by Edwin Rigaud, Jr., who serves as its CEO, and remains a certified Minority Business Enterprise.

Who are EnovaPremier's customers?

EnovaPremier names General Motors, Hyundai, Stellantis, and Toyota as clients on its own site. Its plants in Indiana, Alabama, Michigan, and Kentucky are positioned near major US vehicle assembly operations, consistent with the sequencing and assembly-to-line work it does for those OEMs.

Where is EnovaPremier located?

EnovaPremier is headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky, at a corporate support center on Lyndon Farm Court. It runs assembly plants in Princeton, Indiana; Montgomery, Alabama; Charlotte, Michigan; and Paris, Kentucky, five US locations in total.

What certifications does EnovaPremier hold?

EnovaPremier states that it is certified to IATF 16949 for automotive quality management and ISO 14001 for environmental management, with certificates linked from its own site. It is also a certified Minority Business Enterprise through the National Minority Supplier Development Council.

How many employees does EnovaPremier have?

EnovaPremier reports 310 employees across its five US sites on its own site. Databases that model headcount from professional-network profiles estimate a similar range. The company does not publish a separate figure since its 2026 acquisition by James Group Inc.

Last verified September 27, 2026. Is this your company? Request a correction.