Toyota's Expansion **Arkansas and Tenn. are the Finalists (page 1)**
05-14-2005, 02:15 AM
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Toyota's Expansion **Arkansas and Tenn. are the Finalists (page 1)**
From the Detroit Free Press (May 11, 2005):
BY JOHN GALLAGHER
FREE PRESS BUSINESS WRITER
Toyota Motor Corp. might be close to choosing a site in Ontario for its next North American assembly plant, but the automaker described a published report to that effect as speculation.
The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday that Toyota intends to build its seventh North American assembly plant near Woodstock, Ontario, not far from an existing Toyota plant in Cambridge, Ontario.
Daniel Sieger, a spokesman for Toyota Motor Manufacturing North America's headquarters in Kentucky, denied that the company has made any decision.
"Until this thing is finalized, nothing is finalized," he said Tuesday. "We've been through this before. There are certainly cases where the speculation has proven to be correct, and there's been cases where the speculation has not been proven correct. And that's the problem with speculation."
He added, "We're a fairly meticulous company. We look at lots of options."
Toyota's policy is to try to manufacture about two-thirds of the vehicles in the market where they are sold. Toyota is about at that point now in North America, but needs to add capacity as sales increase to keep hitting that target.
From a U.S. market share of 5.7 percent in 1985, Toyota now makes 14 percent of all vehicles sold in the United States.
If reports about the Ontario site turn out to be correct, the selection would represent a disappointment for Michigan, which has been among the American states under consideration for the new plant, according to the Journal. Michael Shore, spokesman for the Michigan Economic Development Corp., said the state has had ongoing talks with Toyota "about everything and anything," just as it does with all major automakers.
"They know fairly well where they want to go long before those who want to sell them have a chance to," he said of Toyota.
One big advantage that Ontario offers any automaker is a reduced labor cost based on Canada's national health care system. Buzz Hargrove, president of the Canadian Auto Workers union, said Tuesday that the savings amounts to $4 (U.S.) per hour per worker.
Another advantage of the Ontario site could be economies of scale by running both a new plant and the existing one in Cambridge with one administrative team. Toyota's Cambridge plant employs 4,000 workers on two shifts, producing models such as the Corolla and the Lexus RX 330. Last year, the plant produced 292,000 vehicles.
Quoting unnamed Toyota executives, the Journal reported that Toyota's board might make a final decision on the new site at a late-June meeting, but Sieger said only that a decision was expected sometime this year
Report: Toyota intends to put plant in Ontario
FREE PRESS BUSINESS WRITER
Toyota Motor Corp. might be close to choosing a site in Ontario for its next North American assembly plant, but the automaker described a published report to that effect as speculation.
The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday that Toyota intends to build its seventh North American assembly plant near Woodstock, Ontario, not far from an existing Toyota plant in Cambridge, Ontario.
Daniel Sieger, a spokesman for Toyota Motor Manufacturing North America's headquarters in Kentucky, denied that the company has made any decision.
"Until this thing is finalized, nothing is finalized," he said Tuesday. "We've been through this before. There are certainly cases where the speculation has proven to be correct, and there's been cases where the speculation has not been proven correct. And that's the problem with speculation."
He added, "We're a fairly meticulous company. We look at lots of options."
Toyota's policy is to try to manufacture about two-thirds of the vehicles in the market where they are sold. Toyota is about at that point now in North America, but needs to add capacity as sales increase to keep hitting that target.
From a U.S. market share of 5.7 percent in 1985, Toyota now makes 14 percent of all vehicles sold in the United States.
If reports about the Ontario site turn out to be correct, the selection would represent a disappointment for Michigan, which has been among the American states under consideration for the new plant, according to the Journal. Michael Shore, spokesman for the Michigan Economic Development Corp., said the state has had ongoing talks with Toyota "about everything and anything," just as it does with all major automakers.
"They know fairly well where they want to go long before those who want to sell them have a chance to," he said of Toyota.
One big advantage that Ontario offers any automaker is a reduced labor cost based on Canada's national health care system. Buzz Hargrove, president of the Canadian Auto Workers union, said Tuesday that the savings amounts to $4 (U.S.) per hour per worker.
Another advantage of the Ontario site could be economies of scale by running both a new plant and the existing one in Cambridge with one administrative team. Toyota's Cambridge plant employs 4,000 workers on two shifts, producing models such as the Corolla and the Lexus RX 330. Last year, the plant produced 292,000 vehicles.
Quoting unnamed Toyota executives, the Journal reported that Toyota's board might make a final decision on the new site at a late-June meeting, but Sieger said only that a decision was expected sometime this year
05-14-2005, 09:21 PM
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http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNew...ub=CTVNewsAt11
Last year, for the first time ever, the province became the car capital of North America. More cars and light trucks were manufactured in Southern Ontario last year than anywhere else on the continent.
"Ontario's turning out to be arguably one of the best areas anywhere in the world to manufacture vehicles," Desrosiers told CTV News. "Honda recognizes that. Toyota recognizes that. In fact, GM, Ford, and Chrysler recognize that. That's why they're maintaining their assembly plants (in Ontario)."
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Old news, admittedly
Last year, for the first time ever, the province became the car capital of North America. More cars and light trucks were manufactured in Southern Ontario last year than anywhere else on the continent.
"Ontario's turning out to be arguably one of the best areas anywhere in the world to manufacture vehicles," Desrosiers told CTV News. "Honda recognizes that. Toyota recognizes that. In fact, GM, Ford, and Chrysler recognize that. That's why they're maintaining their assembly plants (in Ontario)."
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Old news, admittedly
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Toyota to build plant in Woodstock, Ontario
Toyota to build plant in Woodstock, Ontario - - Set to open in 2008, plant will build RAV4 - - Reuters / June 30, 2005 - - Source: Automotive News
WOODSTOCK, Ontario -- Toyota Motor Corp. has chosen Canada for its seventh North American car assembly plant, the company confirmed on Thursday, adding capacity to meet burgeoning demand.
Japan's top automaker said it would invest about $650 million (Canadian $800 million) in building the Woodstock, Ontario, factory, which will have annual production capacity of 100,000 vehicles.
The plant will begin production in 2008. It will build RAV4 SUVs.
The world's most profitable carmaker and the second-biggest by sales volume said the plant would create at least 1,300 new jobs.
Toyota's expansion comes at a time when General Motors and Ford Motor Co. are cutting production and shedding jobs at underused factories as they lose customers to Toyota and other Asian brands.
Toyota has been zooming past its rivals in the U.S. and Canadian markets. It grabbed a 12.4 percent share of the Canadian market last month -- its highest ever -- even as overall car sales have contracted.
Last year, Toyota produced 1.513 million vehicles at its four North American factories, excluding a plant in Tijuana, Mexico, that opened in December. Total output exceeded the four plants' official capacity of 1.48 million units, not counting overtime.
With the addition of the plant in Mexico and one in San Antonio, Texas, due to begin operations next year, Toyota will be able to build 1.66 million vehicles a year in North America.
Woodstock is a short drive from Toyota's plant at Cambridge, Ontario, which builds the Corolla, Matrix and Lexus RX 330 -- the only model of the luxury Lexus line built outside Japan.
Lower employee health costs for companies in Canada because of its universal public health care system have been cited as a reason that automakers, including Honda Motor Co., have invested in Ontario, Canada's industrial heartland. The province now produces more vehicles than Michigan, the traditional center of the U.S. automotive industry.
"It's the place to be for investors looking for stable, predictable business costs, free from the spiraling health costs plaguing many parts of the world," Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty said in a statement welcoming the plant.
"We've always said medicare is one of our competitive advantages - and Toyota has chosen the stability that medicare provides investors in Ontario."
The Ontario government said it will invest up to $57 million in the project, including support for training and infrastructure.
The new Toyota factory in Woodstock is the first assembly plant to be built by any automaker in Canada since 1995.
Japan's top automaker said it would invest about $650 million (Canadian $800 million) in building the Woodstock, Ontario, factory, which will have annual production capacity of 100,000 vehicles.
The plant will begin production in 2008. It will build RAV4 SUVs.
The world's most profitable carmaker and the second-biggest by sales volume said the plant would create at least 1,300 new jobs.
Toyota's expansion comes at a time when General Motors and Ford Motor Co. are cutting production and shedding jobs at underused factories as they lose customers to Toyota and other Asian brands.
Toyota has been zooming past its rivals in the U.S. and Canadian markets. It grabbed a 12.4 percent share of the Canadian market last month -- its highest ever -- even as overall car sales have contracted.
Last year, Toyota produced 1.513 million vehicles at its four North American factories, excluding a plant in Tijuana, Mexico, that opened in December. Total output exceeded the four plants' official capacity of 1.48 million units, not counting overtime.
With the addition of the plant in Mexico and one in San Antonio, Texas, due to begin operations next year, Toyota will be able to build 1.66 million vehicles a year in North America.
Woodstock is a short drive from Toyota's plant at Cambridge, Ontario, which builds the Corolla, Matrix and Lexus RX 330 -- the only model of the luxury Lexus line built outside Japan.
Lower employee health costs for companies in Canada because of its universal public health care system have been cited as a reason that automakers, including Honda Motor Co., have invested in Ontario, Canada's industrial heartland. The province now produces more vehicles than Michigan, the traditional center of the U.S. automotive industry.
"It's the place to be for investors looking for stable, predictable business costs, free from the spiraling health costs plaguing many parts of the world," Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty said in a statement welcoming the plant.
"We've always said medicare is one of our competitive advantages - and Toyota has chosen the stability that medicare provides investors in Ontario."
The Ontario government said it will invest up to $57 million in the project, including support for training and infrastructure.
The new Toyota factory in Woodstock is the first assembly plant to be built by any automaker in Canada since 1995.
06-30-2005, 12:36 PM
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Originally Posted by M TYPE X
More automaking occurs now in Ontario than in Michigan 
06-30-2005, 09:10 PM
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Originally Posted by M TYPE X
More automaking occurs now in Ontario than in Michigan
Aside from several other factors.
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07-01-2005, 04:59 PM
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That plant in Woodstock has been rumored for ages (here in Canada, at least). Some people where I live grumble that their jobs are on the line (ie Big3 employees) but I think you can't put your eggs in 1 basket.
I'm happy that Ontario got the plant -- more jobs, more taxes and more spin-off jobs for this economy. I think Americans better keep an eye out on several fronts:
1) health care -- you're the only G8 nation that doesn't have some sort of comprehensive care
2) worldwide competition -- Big3 can't rely on their laurels if they want to keep marketshare in North America
PS Detroit isn't that big a sh*thole. You haven't visited parts of Chicago or New Jersey then ...
I'm happy that Ontario got the plant -- more jobs, more taxes and more spin-off jobs for this economy. I think Americans better keep an eye out on several fronts:
1) health care -- you're the only G8 nation that doesn't have some sort of comprehensive care
2) worldwide competition -- Big3 can't rely on their laurels if they want to keep marketshare in North America
PS Detroit isn't that big a sh*thole. You haven't visited parts of Chicago or New Jersey then ...
07-01-2005, 10:18 PM
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Originally Posted by derrick
PS Detroit isn't that big a sh*thole. You haven't visited parts of Chicago or New Jersey then ...
07-02-2005, 01:58 PM
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haha the steel plants?.. it shoots fire out pretty cool haha looks like LOTR mordor
07-03-2005, 04:19 PM
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Originally Posted by The Sarlacc
Well, if Detroit wasn't such a shithole...
Aside from several other factors.
Aside from several other factors.
LOL @ the description of Hamilton, Ontario as 'Mordor'
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Toyota Could Build Plant in Ark., Tenn. - - by Marty Padgett (2007-01-20) - -Source: The Car Connection
The Associated Press reports thatToyota has narrowed down its list of potential plant sites to two.
The two finalists, the AP says, are Marion, Arkansas, and Chattanooga, Tenn. The Marion site was a finalist for the Tundra plant now operating in San Antonio, Texas , and is 1750 acres.
No more details were offered about the Chattanooga site, but Tennessee's abundance of auto plants - Saturn and Tennessee - would seem to give Arkansas an edge, particularly if the state can come up with the usual $250 million in incentives to locate there, as has been the practice in Alabama, Mississippi, and other non-auto-producing states in the South, eager to land their first car assembly plant.
The new plant has been rumored as a production facility for the Highlander crossover vehicle. A 2008 Highlander and Highlander Hybrid are due to be shown at next month's Chicago auto show.
A final decision could come next month. The plant would be Toyota's eighth in North America.
The two finalists, the AP says, are Marion, Arkansas, and Chattanooga, Tenn. The Marion site was a finalist for the Tundra plant now operating in San Antonio, Texas , and is 1750 acres.
No more details were offered about the Chattanooga site, but Tennessee's abundance of auto plants - Saturn and Tennessee - would seem to give Arkansas an edge, particularly if the state can come up with the usual $250 million in incentives to locate there, as has been the practice in Alabama, Mississippi, and other non-auto-producing states in the South, eager to land their first car assembly plant.
The new plant has been rumored as a production facility for the Highlander crossover vehicle. A 2008 Highlander and Highlander Hybrid are due to be shown at next month's Chicago auto show.
A final decision could come next month. The plant would be Toyota's eighth in North America.
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Toyota was in my county a few months back looking at possible sites- close to a major port and significant highway/rail infrastructire,and cheaper land. Apparently we never made the short list
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