Toyota to Increase Production in Tijuana by 40% in 2015

Increase will create 300 new jobs in region

TOYOTA CITY, JAPAN.- Toyota's manufacturing plant in Tijuana is planning on increasing production of its Tacoma pickup truck line by 40% in 2015, an increase of output of 63,000 units to 89,000 per year, which will result in the creation of 300 new jobs in the region. The announcement was made by executives during a trade mission tour being conducted in Asia by Baja Governor Francisco Vega de Lamadrid.

[p]Governor Vega discussed the state's progress and future infrastructure plans with Totota executives. One of many projects is to increase production of renewable energy, and the modernization of the Tijuana-Tecate railway which will specifically help Toyota by allowing them to transport finished automobiles to the United States via a binational railway. They also discussed other well known regional attributes, such as the well qualified labor force and the state's prime location which is of great importance in the auto industry.

It was also announced that the projected investment in the railway and the San Ysidro-San Diego section will specifically increase the capacity of wagons from ten thousand to close to twenty thousand. Other comparative advantages of using the maritime port of Ensenada for cargo shipments were also discussed.

Nobuyori Kodaira, Worldwide Vice President of the Toyota Motor Company, told the Governor that the company is planning on increasing production in its Tijuana plant in April 2015, and will add a third shift which will create more jobs in the region. This comes after ten years in operation in El Gandul, the assembly plant that has maintained positive output ever since it opened, having grown from originally producing 30,000 Toyota Tacoma Trucks and 700 employees to double the amount. According to Toyota executives, Toyota's Tijuana plant is its number one foreign plant in terms of quality and output. It attributes this to skilled human capital in the region.

The main activities that take place at the plant include welding, painting, and assembly of Toyota Tacoma model pickups, which are mainly exported to the United States with only 7% remaining in Mexico. In 2010 the plant registered production output of 50,000 units, which later increased in 2011 to 54,000 units, and to 57,000 in 2013.

The Baja California committee visiting with Toyota Executives include Governor Vega, and local representatives Laura Torres Ramirez and Mario Osuna Jimenes; Carlo Bonfante Olache of the Secretary of Economic Development and Juan Antonio Marinez, the Vice Secretary of Promotion and Economic Development, Juan Antonio Martinez; Xavier Peniche Bustamante, Secretary of Economic Development of Tijuana; and Flavio Sandoval, President of INDEX Mexicali.

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