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A California plant is scheduled to close in March and the Buffalo plant ships more than half of their four cylinder engines there.
By Gil McClanahan
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BUFFALO -- Toyota's plant in Fremont, Calif., is scheduled to close in March 2010, and workers at the company's Putnam County plant are watching the process closely.
Mike Lutz, general manager of Toyota Motor Manufacturing West Virginia said 60 percent of engines made at the Putnam County plant are shipped to the California plant. The rest head to a Canada plant.
Currently, Lutz said they have increased their shipments of four-cylinder engines to the Canada plant as they wait for the company to decide how to allocate production of the engines.
The Buffalo plant is trying to win that business. If that happens, Lutz said four-cylinder engines made in Buffalo will be shipped to Japan.
Lutz added that under the worst case scenerio -- if they don't get that contract -- there will still be plenty of work at the plant. Some workers would have to shifted around to various jobs at the plant. |
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