Together, the two leaders toured the General Motors Orion Assembly plant in Michigan -- then spoke to automotive workers.
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Instead of focusing on a campaign fundraiser Thursday in Ohio, and touring a Ford Assembly plant, the Republican front-runner began his morning in front of a battery of TV cameras, answering questions about his relationship with Iseman, who is 31 years his junior.
In 1959 Toyota's Motomachi factory became Japan's first full-scale car assembly plant.
In back you'll find the machine assembly plant and a wing leased to one of K-Tron's vendors.
At the age of35, Linda Arroz made a major career change: from a working on the assembly line at a General Motors plant as a spot-welder to an image consultant in the corporate and fashion worlds.
And aside from making a few MD-80s for McDonnell Douglas between 1985 and 1994, the closest China comes to being a manufacturer of big-league commercial aircraft is the Airbus assembly plant in Tianjin, where it puts together A320s from kits.
The details are still being tweaked, but the plant will be served by 12-15 primary suppliers, barely one-tenth of those found at a conventional assembly plant.
Kentucky Truck, the largest auto assembly plant in the US and the home of the Ford F-Series, ran tight over the summer to keep up with demand and from the looks of it Ford dealers will still be running short on trucks.
Nissan just announced that it will ramp up U.S. assembly of the 2013 model year all-electric LEAF at its manufacturing plant in Smyrna, Tenn.
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The company is negotiating with unions to close two facilities in the U.K. by mid-year and recently struck a deal with unions to close an assembly plant in Genk, Belgium.
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The first customer-ready new Ford Expedition rolled off the assembly line at the Michigan Truck Plant in Wayne, Michigan, in March.
Importantly, LEAF is now assembled in the United States at Nissan's Smyrna, Tenn. assembly plant, with battery production taking place right next door in the country's largest lithium-ion automotive battery plant.
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Today it's not uncommon for suppliers to build large chunks of an automobile--a complete dashboard or a front-end module, say--at their own factories, then ship them to the auto plant for final assembly.
Mr. Sano said the Renault-Nissan facility spread over 640 acres has space to build an assembly plant for an additional 400, 000 cars.
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