Toyota has broken ground for the expansion of the its technical centre in Michigan.
“The expansion of this campus is a key element of Toyota’s ongoing unification of our North American operations, which includes a new headquarters in Plano, Texas,” said North America CEO Jim Lentz.
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“Investments here in Michigan will intensify Toyota’s engineering, product development and procurement capabilities. The impact of this will be felt by our customers through improved quality, adoption of new technologies and greater value of the vehicles we produce.”
Toyota is spending US$126m in the project which includes construction of two new buildings in York Township. The landscape will add a new prototype facility for vehicle development and a supplier centre to enable day to day collaboration between the purchasing group, engineering design team and suppliers.
The TTC expansion also enlarges powertrain development at the Ann Arbor Township campus.
Toyota is relocating more than 300 workers to Michigan including direct procurement and supplier engineering development people currently based in Erlanger, Kentucky and vehicle development and powertrain functions presently in California.
Construction will be completed in late 2016.
