Automakers

Honda adds flexibility in plant makeover

Honda is preparing a new door subassembly line at its Marysville Auto Plant in Ohio in space previously occupied by a paint shop. The new line will have adjustable workstations.
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By:
Ralph Kisiel
October 16, 2006 05:00 AM
Marysville Auto Plant

Started production: November 1982

Plant size: 3.9 million square feet

Capacity: 440,000 vehicles yearly

Total investment: $3.3 billion

Vehicles produced: Honda Accord, Acura RDX, Acura TL sedan

Employees: 5,300

Latest expansion: $123 million paint shop

Source: Honda of America Manufacturing Inc.

MARYSVILLE, Ohio -- Honda's Marysville assembly plant is so big - equivalent to 39 Wal-Mart stores under one roof - that it can't be modernized all at once.

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