Toyota Motor Manufacturing de Baja California

Toyota Motor Manufacturing de Baja California, S. de R.L. de C.V.[note 1] (TMMBC) is a Toyota automobile manufacturing facility located Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico that opened in 2002. The facility currently produces the Toyota Tacoma for the North American market and pickup truck beds. The plant is a 350,000 sq ft (33,000 m2) building on a site of 700 acres that has the capacity to produce 166,000 vehicles per year and employs 2,000 people.

Toyota Motor Manufacturing de Baja California, S. de R.L. de C.V.
IndustryAutomotive
FoundedOctober 10, 2002 (2002-10-10)
Headquarters
Tijuana, Baja California
,
Mexico
Key people
Mike Bafan (president)
ProductsToyota Tacoma, pickup truck beds
Number of employees
2,021
ParentToyota Motor North America
Websitetoyota.com

History

The plant is a 350,000 sq ft (33,000 m2) building on a site of 700 acres, employing 700 people.[1] TMMBC is Toyota's first automotive manufacturing plant in Mexico and builds Tacoma pickup trucks. The plant was built for an annual capacity of 180,000 truck beds and 30,000 Tacoma pickup trucks.

In January 2006, Toyota announced that the plant capacity would be expanded to produce 50,000 Tacoma pickup trucks, and 200,000 truck beds. The Tacoma truck beds are used for total Tacoma production.[2] As of January 2016, Toyota reports truck production capacity of 90,000, employing 1,100.[3]

In 2016, Toyota announced a $150,000,000 expansion of TMMBC that would increase capacity by 2018 to up to 160,000 units.[4] In 2017 TMMBC made 104,622 Tacomas. The increased production at TMMBC was also intended to allow adjustments at their Toyota Motor Manufacturing Texas lines, which produce both Tacoma and Toyota Tundra models, to satisfy seasonal changes in Tundra orders.

TMMBC produces only V6 double cab short bed versions of the Tacoma, the most popular configuration.[5]

In January 2017, Toyota wrote in a press release: Our manufacturing facilities in Baja, Mexico [...] support production at our San Antonio, Texas plant, where 3,300 team members produced over 230,000 Tundras and Tacomas in 2016.[6] Before, President-elect Donald Trump had written a Tweet “Toyota Motor said will build a new plant in Baja, Mexico, to build Corolla cars for U.S.,” “NO WAY! Build plant in U.S. or pay big border tax.”[7]

Toyota began operations in a new Tacoma truck plant in Guanajuato, Mexico (TMMGT), 16 December 2019.[8]

Products made

Awards

For the Annual J.D. Power and Associates Initial Quality Survey (IQS) of 2008, TMMBC was awarded the Gold Plant award for Quality among all North and South American automotive manufacturing plants.[9]

Notes
  1. Sociedad de Responsabilidad Limitada de Capital Variable (English: Limited Liability Company with Variable Capital)

References
  1. "Toyota Motor Manufacturing de Baja California, S. de R.L. de C.V. (TMMBC) Fact Sheet". Toyota Motor Sales, USA. Archived from the original on 1 February 2010. Retrieved 4 September 2020.
  2. "Toyota Announces Expansion of Mexican Plant" (Press release). 23 January 2006. Archived from the original on 21 September 2010. Retrieved 21 April 2010.
  3. "Toyota Motor Manufacturing de Baja California, S. de R.L. de C.V. (TMMBC) Fact Sheet". 27 January 2016. Archived from the original on 9 July 2017. Retrieved 4 September 2020.http://toyotanews.pressroom.toyota.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=2378
  4. "Toyota Announces Production Expansion at its Baja California Plant" (Press release). 28 October 2016. Retrieved 4 September 2020.https://tijuanaedc.org/toyota-announces-production-expansion-baja-california-plant/
  5. Williams, Mark (14 September 2016). "Toyota's Tijuana Plant Pumps Out Tacomas". Retrieved 4 September 2020.https://news.pickuptrucks.com/2016/09/toyotas-tijuana-plant-pumps-out-tacomas.html
  6. "Toyota in the U.S." Toyota USA Newsroom (Press release). 5 January 2017. Retrieved 4 September 2020.5 January 2017
  7. Clairmont, Nicholas (7 January 2017). "Trump Is Turning American Companies Into Reality-Show Contestants". Retrieved 4 September 2020.theatlantic.com: Trump Is Turning American Companies Into Reality-Show Contestants
  8. "Toyota started operations in Guanajuato". 7 January 2020. Retrieved 4 September 2020.https://mexico-now.com/index.php/article/5763-toyota-started-operations-in-guanajuato
  9. "J.D. Power Award Summaries" (Press release). Retrieved 4 September 2020.http://businesscenter.jdpower.com/news/pressrelease.aspx?ID=2008063
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