Arvin Sango has marked the 20-year anniversary of the 1986 signing of a 50/50 joint venture agreement between Arvin Industries (now ArvinMeritor) and Sango of Japan. Originally formed to supply Toyota’s first US assembly plant in Georgetown, Kentucky, with exhaust systems, Arvin Sango has grown from one plant to three, and now supplies 75% of Toyota’s exhaust systems in North America.

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The company has grown from approximately 100 employees, when its doors opened in 1988, to more than 800 today at three US production facilities in Madison, Indiana, Campbellsburg, Kentucky and Merced, California.


Arvin Sango manufactures exhaust and emissions components and systems, as well as body shell stampings and assemblies.


Customers include: Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada (TMMC); Toyota Motor Manufacturing Indiana (TMMI); Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky (TMMK); Toyota Motor Manufacturing Texas (TMMTX); Toyota Motor Manufacturing West Virginia (TMMWV); Toyota Industrial Equipment Manufacturing (TIEM); Toyota Motor Manufacturing Baja, California (TMMBC); Isuzu Motors America/DMAX; New United Motor Manufacturing, and Nissan North America – Smyrna/Decherd.

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