Posted on 08/28/2009 3:43:07 AM PDT by ElephantinTexas
TACOMA PRODUCTION MOVES TO SA TOYOTA PLANT
It will mean 1,000 new Toyota jobs.
By Jim Forsyth Thursday, August 27, 2009
Toyota Motor Manufacturing of Texas announced Thursday night that Toyota is relocating its Tacoma mid sized pickup truck production form Fremont California to San Antonio, and is expected to make a $100 million investment in the plant on the city's south side, 1200 WOAI news reports.
"Here in Texas, the addition of the Tacoma to the Tundra production line will better utilize our plant's capacity and the 21 supplier facilities on our site," TMMTX President Kenji Fukuta said.
"This will require new jobs at our plant to handle the additional production, and on-site suppliers will also be adding new jobs, but it is too soon to give an estimate."
Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff said the move will mean about 1,000 new jobs at Toyota itself, with additional new jobs at suppliers which ring the plant. Toyota said its too early to tell the size of the investment or the number of new jobs it will create.
The south side Toyota plant, which opened in 2007, turns out the full sized Tundra pickup truck, but Tundra sales have been down sharply since last summer's spike in gasoline prices, raising questions about the viability of the plant as a stand alone producer of Tundras alone.
"This announcement reflects the depth of the ties between Toyota and Texas while underscoring the strength of our state's workforce and job climate," Governor Rick Perry said.
Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff said he expects Toyota will produce 100,000 Tacomas in San Antonio. The NUMMI production line currently turns out about 160,000 of the trucks per year. He says he does not expect today’s announcement will have any impact on a plant in Mexico which also turns out the trucks.
“What we have done on the incentive package, as that we put together is no different from what we would give to any other company that came here,” Wolff said.
“They haven’t stated exactly the investment or the number of jobs, but the investment package will be tied to that.
Toyota announced earlier today that it was shutting down it's New United Motor Manufacturing Incorporated facility in northern California, after General Motors pulled out of the partnership with Toyota as part of it's bankruptcy filing.
“I understand that the time line for their facility in California goes through March of next year,” San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro said.
Ironically, Castro is a graduate of Stanford University, which is not far from the NUMMI facility.
“We are very pleased with this decision,” Castro said.
“We know that San Antonio is the right place for this investment.”
The plant builds the Tacoma as well as the Corolla passenger car.
Officials indicated that Tacoma production will begin in San Antonio next spring, with full production expected by the summertime.
While California is having a garage sale, Texas is producing more jobs.
No kiddin'....
In a word...Taxes.
Read ‘em and weep, California....
Haha.
Suck it, Kookifornistan.
Isn't that Pelosi's turf?
I think that Toyota's plan to move speaks volumes and will send a message to other companies to move or start their business in Texas.
Wonder what 16 term rat atheist Rep. Pete Stark has to say about Toyota picking up their marbles and leaving Fremont for San Antonio? Crickets.... The East Bay needs a reality check, pronto.
What is happening to California? That’s the second major auto plant this month!
A key House liberal suggested Thursday that party moderates who've pushed for changes in health care legislation are "brain dead" and out for insurance company campaign donations. Moderate Blue Dog Democrats "just want to cause trouble," said Rep. Pete Stark, D-Calif., who heads the health subcommittee on the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee. "They're for the most part, I hate to say brain dead, but they're just looking to raise money from insurance companies and promote a right-wing agenda that is not really very useful in this whole process,"
In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised that we could see the San Antonio, TX plant expand even further and we could see the Corolla production start there by 2012.
Reality check:
First, Toyota could not keep both plants open given the volume of the Tundra and Tacoma.
Second, if you build pickups....build them in Texas because that state/region buys more pickups than any other.
Third, the Corolla is made in Canada, so the California plant was pointless and outdated.
Fourth, who wants to keep a plant open in the most car-hostile state in the nation?
Good Morning! I’m still around. Thought I’d ping ya’.
Fifth, taxes are much lower in Texas.
Sixth, Texas is a right to work state, so screw the unions!
Good! I hope California suffers for all the disasters that the state has placed on the rest of the country.
That is already being talked about this morning on moving the Corolla production up in Canada down here.
The plant here can produce 160,000 trucks a year without running a second shift. With adding the Tacoma, they hope to put out 180,000 trucks so I'm sure that the extra $100 Million Toyota is going to put into the plant here, the Corolla production will be in those plans.
California is hostile to business in general.....
Pelosi, Feinstein and Boxer tried to bribe Toyota to stay with stimulus money, but failed.
.....on-site suppliers will also be adding new jobs,......
Conversely, California will loose another 1,000 jobs of vendors.
These will be across the board and include all types of administrators, clerks and office types. The California companies will just be gone.
......The East Bay needs a reality check, pronto....
What is really needed is a massively destructive earth quake. That is the only real solution to the plague
Texas is a great refuge right now, but the demographics are going to cause a problem there without action on immigration.
We need to get the borders closed.
To add to that, a story came out in the houston comical that Boeing is looking to put in a production line for the new 787 airliner in San Antonio. SA is about to boom over the next couple of years. Say what you will about governer good hair, but the proof in in the pudding. Our state is growing despite the intentional economic destruction being driven by the dimrat party.
so, the transportation corridor opened up northward via rail and Highway will be a big part in nationwide distribution capability.
“If you build it, they will come”
Precisely the reason that we aren’t retiring in my home state of Texas. Too many derned mexicans. (cue the “that’s racist” animation)
It’s pretty sad when you need to know spanish to get a job, as was the case with my daughter who is attending college in Texas. She actually had to come here to NY, get hired by Penny’s and then transfer. True story.
If you do everything you can to crush business, large and small, you will not create jobs. Period!
I know maybe 5 Spanish words, and none of my kids know any Spanish.
I have one granddaughter who is proficient in Spanish--but she went to Spain to learn it.
We have lived here very comfortably--my husband had a very successful career (he's an Okie, and he didn't have to learn Spanish to move here.)
I guess I will be the one to say it first-—I’m already sick of Californians moving to Texas! I wouldn’t mind it at all if they would appreciate what we have here—but they want things just like they were back home. They are trying to turn this state blue!
The Fremont plant is in Pete Stark’s district....
Oh, OK. I just heard them talk about the San Francisco plant and it’s 4500 employees and how it was San Francisco’s largest employer.
Fremont seemed like a poor location considering the location of most parts facilities are in the central US.
I agree with you on that but they are already telling the folks here in San Antonio that a new phone number will be in place by tomorrow to call and set up your interview like they did when the plant opened. So, just like last time, the bulk of the hires are going to be from in and around San Antonio and I don’t think we are going to get a whole boat load of Cali’s coming this way, Thank Goodness!
California will just raise taxes to comphensate for the loss of the Toyota plant. Its libtards answer to everything.
(Maybe CA thought that was a toy Yoda plant that was leaving.)
I don't like to sound unneighborly, but I'm getting a bit tired of "furriners" here. You can't swing a cat around here without hitting about 10 of them, all telling us how wonderful it is "back home".
I've been wanting to find an old bumper sticker I had on my van. It read:
HOWDY! Welcome to Texas.
NOW GO HOME!!
If I find one, I'll pick one up for you too.
LOL!
A nineteen y/o college student in SW Texas is at the bottom of the workforce food chain. Retail and food service industry. When she is up against sixty other applicants that speak the language of the buyers, she loses.
I’ll bite my tongue on the other BS in your post.
I’m sorry things are bad for you and your daughter. However—it’s not my fault.
I just watched the Gangland show on History about the Tango Bravo gang in Houston and it sounds like they have a problem there. It’s another hispanic gang, btw. I moved from San Antonio four years ago and I wouldn’t mind going back now that I’m married, but I’m also not sure that I’d want to raise our kids in south Texas with the demographic shift that is taking place. (crime, culture reasons).
Those three would not be able to stimulate anything. EPIC FAIL for Kaleefornication.
Toyota announced earlier today that it was shutting down it's New United Motor Manufacturing Incorporated facility in northern California
It's sad when you have a hard time getting through an article due to its errors.
Now Californians will remember the Alamo, too.
Toyota has confirmed that Corolla production is moving to Canada and Japan. The Cambridge plant will be brought back up to speed and the Aichi plant will pick up the remainder of the business.
They said they “may” consider moving production back to “North America” at some point in the future.
Do NOT count on San Antonio getting the work. That plant was built to be dedicated to building body-on-frame trucks. Retooling for the Tacoma is relatively simple, since you for the most part just need additional locating pins for the smaller bodies (Chrysler’s Warren Truck plant does this, building the Dakota and Ram on the same line).
However, a small unibody vehicle is a completely different beast. You’re essentially building a whole new plant at that point. Look at what Ford is having to do to the Michigan Truck plant to retool it to build the next generation Focus. That’s a $550 million investment. The main savings over a new plant is simply in the building. The actual equipment is completely gutted.
So, if Toyota has to pay for a new factory in the future, do you think that they’ll put it in San Antonio? Or Mexico? Toyota has shown little loyalty to US production, despite their rhetoric.
PS -
When Ford announced that the Fiesta would be built in Mexico, the press spun the story as Ford moving production to Mexico. Nevermind that the Cuautitlan plant built F-series trucks for Mexico (not imported to the US) and that production was going to move to the US.
So you had the press then spinning the story as Ford selling out to Mexico, when in fact Mexico got a new model (not likely to sell well in the US, to be honest) and the American workers got to build trucks to export to Mexico.
How is reporting this as moving Corolla production to Canada any different? At least in this case we *know* that this means that Toyota will have a higher number of imported vehicles they sell. In Ford’s case, they may well end up exporting more trucks to Mexico than they import Fiestas from Mexico...
Right now I'm about as outraged as I have ever been. I just learned that Guvner Goodhair (Perry) has ordered our flags in TX to be lowered for the Swimmer! That is just wrong! I'm raising all kind's of hell about that right now!
I do IT consulting at the NUMMI plant, as well as provide service to some of the suppliers in San Antonio and the Tecate BC plant.
From what I hear Toyota is not enjoying the relationship with Mexico and it’s lack of security. I wouldn’t be surprised if they pull out from there and move all Tundra production to SA.
As far as the Corolla, no it won’t go to SA. I predict that it will move TO Tupelo MS, with the Prius once the economy picks up.
The whole point of this post was to point out what happens when you don't create a good environment for business. The business moves or goes out of business. Plain and simple.
Is this delicious or what?
Not that Pelosi will care. She’s got Beer companies funding gay parades.. that’s where the economic action is in S.F.
(Perry) has ordered our flags in TX to be lowered for the Swimmer!
I wish Susan Combs would run..... and she will, eventually.
Not that Pelosi will care. She’s got Queer companies funding gay parades
There, fixed that sentence . . .
Don’t worry Basil. They only come here to retire or buy up everything in town
They don’t wanna work.
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