Nissan North America on Monday celebrated production of 4m vehicles at its Canton assembly plant in Mississippi and announced a second shift that will create or retain 250 hourly jobs to support increasing demand for the automaker's NV commercial vans.
The plant will soon mark 15 years of production.
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Nissan presented the milestone vehicle #4m – a 2018 NV Cargo – to Our Daily Bread Ministries, a local nonprofit organisation that creates awareness of healthy eating and provides aid for hunger relief in the local community.
"Adding a second shift for NV Van production underscores our employees' hard work and dedication to building world class, quality vehicles for our customers," said Steve Marsh, vice president, manufacturing, at the factory.
Nissan has developed the assembly plant from a regional manufacturing facility to a global source, spending US$3.4bn on the factory since its opening in 2003. It employs 6,400 there, with over 1,500 jobs added since 2013.
Annual capacity is 450,000 vehicles and the plant currently builds the Altima sedan, Murano SUV, Titan and XD trucks, Frontier SUV, and NV cargo and passenger vans.
