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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
HINO– MADE IN THE UNITED STATES
California Manufacturing Plant Comes On Line
Long Beach, California October 19, 2004 Hino Motors Manufacturing (HMM) celebrated the opening of its manufacturing facility in Long Beach, California. A joint venture with Toyota’s TABC, Inc., this plant is the first vehicle manufacturing entry in California in nearly twenty years. The current start-up staff of 50 people will grow as Hino ramps the plant to a targeted production level of 10,000 trucks per year by 2006. This new facility marks the beginning of Hino’s North American truck production and shows Hino’s commitment to help grow the California and USA economies. In addition to this facility, Hino had recently opened a new parts manufacturing facility in Ontario, CA. Combined, these facilities represent a $30M investment and employ approximately 300 people.
MADE IN AMERICA — In 2003, Hino produced and sold 87,000 Hino trucks/buses worldwide. Now Hino is targeting a production level, for the Long Beach, CA, facility, of 10,000 fuel efficient trucks each year. As Derek Kaufman, Senior Vice President of Sales, Marketing, and Customer Support highlighted in his interview on Los Angeles television station KCAL, and in interviews with Bloomberg, Heavy Duty Trucking and AP Wire Services, “Toyota is committed to building products where their customers live and work. The Hino plant in California is the latest example of that commitment. In addition, the American components for the drive lines of these trucks also produce jobs throughout the country.”
Hino – Made in the USA
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