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Toyota Industries Creates Jobs in Ga.

February 01, 2012

Gov. Nathan Deal announced today that Japan-based Toyota Industries Corp. will open a manufacturing plant in Pendergrass in Jackson County, creating 320 jobs. The company’s Georgia operation will be known as Toyota Industries Compressor Parts America (TICA), and it represents a $350 million investment. 
 
“In opening this new Georgia manufacturing facility, Toyota Industries Corporation sends a very clear message about its confidence in our state’s ability to help them remain competitive in global markets,” Deal said. “Georgia’s innovative logistics infrastructure, progressive business environment and highly skilled workforce will greatly benefit the world’s largest automotive compressor manufacturer. I am glad to welcome Toyota Industries Corporation’s newest plant to Georgia.”
 
Toyota Industries Corp.’s new Pendergrass operation will locate next to TD Automotive Compressor Georgia (TACG), allowing the company to leverage synergies between the two operations. The TICA plant will manufacture the main parts of automotive compressors currently being imported from Japan and assembled at the TACG facility. The opening of the new TICA plant will allow those parts once manufactured in Japan to be manufactured in Georgia, and conveyed directly to TACG and also shipped to other compressor plants. Toyota Industries Corp. supplies automotive compressors for Toyota Motor Corporation, as well as Chrysler, Ford, General Motors and others.
 
Toyota Industries Corp.’s TICA operation will locate in a 600,000-square-foot facility in Pendergrass, and will leverage Jackson County’s pool of skilled labor. The Georgia Department of Economic Development (GDEcD) partnered with the Jackson County Area Chamber of Commerce to manage this business opportunity for Georgia.

The company will be offered workforce training assistance from Georgia Quick Start, which will provide Toyota Industries Corp. with customized training to facilitate start-up at its TICA operation. Quick Start is Georgia’s No. 1-ranked workforce training program that has extensive experience working with state-of-the-art advanced manufacturing operations.

Toyota Industries Corp. expects to begin operations at the TICA plant by late 2013.

United States. Office of the Governor. “Toyota Industries creates 320 jobs in Jackson County”, Georgia. georgia.gov Interactive Office, February 01, 2012. Web Press Release.