Ground Breaks For Cibolo's New Transmission Plant
AW Texas, an affiliate of Aisin AW Co. Ltd., broke ground on its 3-rd transmission production facility in the US. The 159-acre plant, placed in Cibolo, TX, will be specialized in manufacturing of automatic transmission units. This promising project should create about 900 new jobs to the area during the next 5 years.
Images from the groundbreaking ceremony
Aisin AW started operating in the form of a JV
partnership with BorgWarner in 1969 as Aisin Warner. In 1987, Aisin was renamed
into Aisin AW and continued operating in the transmission industry, eventually founding
an R&D center in Michigan and then a manufacturing site in North Carolina,
which currently operates as the provider of transmission units for Toyota San
Antonio.
The foundation stone laying ceremony took place
less than 2 months after the Japanese maker of car transmissions announced that
it had selected Cibolo for its 3-rd plant in the US. That news leaked the same
day Toyota conducted a press briefing announcing it would put $391 mln into
expansion of its San Antonio plant.
It is planned that the new plant will launch a
large-scale production in September 2021, realizing the state’s potential in
the automotive industry. Manufacturing has an estimated $40 bln economic effect
on Texas, where the automotive production involves approximately 43,000 workers.
News report on the
event
According to Aisin AW officials, construction of the new facility is a major step forward for introduction of local production in North America. The plant will manufacture automatic transmissions for Toyota’s trucks and hybrids produced in San Antonio. Toyota’s choice of San Antonio to invest significant financial resources in plant upgrades is what opened doors for other suppliers to move into the region.
