Honda Plans to Add Production, Employees in Indiana

Washington DC July 10, 2006; The AIADA newsletter reported that Honda's recently announced $550 million auto assembly plant in Greensburg, Indiana is expected to provide for 2,000 new jobs when it opens in 2008 in an area hit hard by manufacturing job losses, reports the Detroit News.

The automaker predicts the flexible assembly line will likely produce the Fit subcompact, and, later in 2009, look to add the Civic. The Indiana plant is part of Honda's $1.18 billion global expansion plan to eventually produce 200,000 vehicles annually, ramping Honda North American production to 1.6 million units per year.