Toyota Motor Manufacturing,
West Virginia, Inc.
MAGGIE HATFIELD. In 2017, Toyota
Motor Manufacturing, West Virginia, Inc.
(TMMWV) announced a $115 million
investment that would expand the plant’s
current facility and operations in Buffalo,
WV, to include the production of 120,000
transaxles per year. However, the company
has now doubled the volume to 240,000
units beginning in 2021, which is an
additional investment of $111 million.
As part of the expansion project, new
equipment has been installed on-site at
the transmission plant. The expansion
will include 72,000 square feet of space,
which will increase the facility’s footprint
to 2 million square feet. The Toyota plant
will also be adding 123 new jobs to its
production line.
While TMMWV team members are
mainly responsible for building engines
and transmissions, they have been training
for a year in preparation for this unique
project. The units built at the plant will
be shipped to Toyota’s Indiana plant for
assembly in the Highlander and Sienna
models.
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“Toyota is the world leader in hybrid
technology, and it is the pathway to the
next generation of vehicles,” says TMMWV
President Leah Curry. “This latest project
demonstrates the confidence of our parent
company, Toyota Motor Corporation, in
Toyota West Virginia. We were the first
Toyota facility in North America to produce
transmissions, and in 2017 we were named
the first plant outside of Japan to begin
producing hybrid transmissions. Now,
before we’ve even begun production, we
have been given the opportunity to double
the volume of this project. We are proud
of our contribution to this new generation
of vehicles.”
The plant will roll the first official
hybrid transaxle off the production line
in April 2020.
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