Four plants in northern Japan, including the Central Motor Plant, are near the region where the tsunami and earthquake impacted most severely.
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Toyota Motor has a plant in Indiana and shares a plant with Subaru there, too, and Mitsubishi Motor is in Illinois.
Last week, the plant celebrated Spark EV motor production, marking the first time a major U.S. auto manufacturer has designed and built both a complete electric motor and drive unit for a modern electric vehicle in the United States.
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CLEVELAND, Ohio (CNN) -- Two workers at a Ford Motor Co. plant are being treated for what may be Legionnaire's disease, a spokesman for the company said Tuesday.
Even as the yen strengthened in 2012, Mazda brought production of its Mazda6 sports sedan back home, after falling vehicle sales in the U.S. spurred them to pull out of a Michigan assembly plant run jointly with Ford Motor Co.
Working together, government officials and union workers convinced Ford Motor Company to keep its Hazelwood plant open despite the company's vow to close it.
Toyoda said Hogan was someone he trusted, having known him since they worked together more than a decade ago at NUMMI, or New United Motor Manufacturing, a California auto plant jointly run by Toyota and GM.
Hogan, an independent consultant and former GM group vice president, has been Toyoda's friend since they worked together more than a decade ago at NUMMI, or New United Motor Manufacturing, a California auto plant jointly run by Toyota and GM.
He said they had enlisted the help of a local manufacturing company to rewind the 18Kw electric motor, which failed on the main plant.
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It was announced on 15 January 2010 that around 900 jobs will be lost after the motor parts maker Bosch decided to close its south Wales plant.
The motor and drive unit are assembled at GM's Baltimore operations plant in White Marsh, Md.
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General Motors and Ford Motor will struggle to regain their footing in the market after huge cutbacks and plant closures.
At Ford Motor, Cisco is helping to network flexible factory lines at four plants, with each plant aware of which parts are on their way from suppliers.
Manufacturing lost 15, 000 jobs, including a 7, 500 drop in motor vehicles and parts, which is partly payback for there having been relatively few seasonal auto plant shutdowns in July.
We intend to, through our negotiations, through our dialogue with Ford Motor Company, to demonstrate that you cannot find a better profit center than the Hazelwood Assembly Plant, due to the productivity of the men and women of local UAW 325.
They say air quality is improving, thanks to tighter emissions standards for motor-vehicles and to the moving of one the city's biggest polluters, a steel plant in the western suburbs, to an offshore island.
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