Honda to Open new Plant in Mexico

Honda plans in 2014 to open $800 million plant in suburb of Celaya,Guanajuato to produce up to 200,000 subcompact cars per year. Site will have about 3,200 workers and 5.66 million square meters of space. Cars will be produced for Mexican and North American markets.

Celaya, Guanajuato is about 210 miles east of Honda de Mexicos's two current plants in El Salto, Jalisco, which build automobiles, motorcycles and auto parts.

Honda will then have eight factories in North America, including 10 assembly lines.


The new plant will boost Honda's automobile production capacity in North America from present 1.63 million units to 1.83 million units in 2014. In 2010, more than 87 percent of Honda and Acura cars and light trucks sold in the United States were produced in North America.

In North America, Honda builds global models such as Civic, Accord and CR-V as well as region-specific light truck models including the Odyssey and Pilot. The smallest automobile currently built by Honda in North America is the compact Honda Civic, which is built at Honda factories in Indiana and Ontario, Canada.

Besides the new auto plant in Mexico, Honda recently announced plans to expand production at several Honda plants in the U.S. and Canada:

The plant in Greensburg, Indiana, which produces the Civic Sedan and Civic Natural Gas vehicle, will add a new second shift in October.

The Marysville, Ohio, auto plant which builds the Accord Sedan and Coupe, and the Acura TL, will reinstate second-shift production on Line 1 by the end of 2011, resuming full, two-shift production for the first time since January 2009.

In Canada, Alliston Plant 1, which manufactures the Civic Sedan, Civic Coupe, Civic Si coupe and sedan, and the Civic HF, will return to full, two-shift operations in September. In May, the plant consolidated its two shifts into one-shift operation to cope with parts supply issues following the Japan earthquake.


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