Production began on Wednesday at Bodine Aluminium, a Toyota subsidiary in Jackson, Tennessee, which casts aluminium engine blocks.
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Bodine will eventually employ 220 and invest US$164m. It plans to cast about a million engine blocks annually and, beginning in 2007, will have the capacity to cast 270,000 aluminium transmission cases and housings annually.
The initial Jackson-made V6 engine blocks are destined for Toyota’s engine plant in Kentucky, and the completed engines will be installed in Camry and Avalon sedans also made in the state.
Bodine was founded in 1912 and became a Toyota subsidiary in 1990. The Company’s two plants in Troy and St. Louis, Missouri, produce aluminium cylinder heads and blocks and other aluminium castings for most of Toyota’s North American-produced vehicles.
Bodine employs about 1,100 in its three facilities.
