Honda starting up 1,000-worker shift at Ind. plant

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS October 12, 2011, 11:14AM ET

GREENSBURG, IND.

Honda is set to start up a second production shift this month at a factory in southeastern Indiana that builds the Civic sedan and its alternative-fuel counterpart, after hiring nearly 1,000 new employees.

The new shift is scheduled to begin at the Greensburg factory on Oct. 24, a move Honda officials say will double the plant's workforce and its annual production to 200,000 vehicles.

Factory spokeswoman Anita Sipes said Wednesday that the new workers had been hired in phases over the last couple of months.

"They are all right now training on the line, learning their processes," Sipes told The Associated Press. "On the 24th, the shifts will split and we'll be building double."

Honda announced plans in May for starting the additional shift in Greensburg by year's end. The company said it had expected that production level since the factory opened in 2008 in the city about 40 miles southeast of Indianapolis, but that those plans were delayed by the recession.

Honda Motor Co. cut production in half at the Greensburg plant and elsewhere after the March tsunami that struck Japan interrupted the flow of auto parts to its U.S. factories. Sipes said the Greensburg factory returned to full production in September and that no workers were laid off during the slow-down period.

The increased output will include additional production of the Civic Natural Gas, formerly the Civic GX. The Greensburg plant began mass production of the 2012 model on Tuesday and it is the only place in the world where Honda is building that vehicle, using engines from the company's plant in Anna, Ohio.

Sipes declined to say how many alternative-fuel Civics are expected to be built at the factory, but said it would be about four times more than before. The company said it is expanding from 72 Honda dealers in four states selling the natural-gas model to nearly 200 dealers in 36 states.

 

http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9QAQTRO1.htm


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Permalink Reply by kittycatmama on October 14, 2011 at 1:24
Here we have a great, trained auto workforce in Shreveport area, big plant, and we are in the heart of the Haynesville Shale--YET our plant will be closed. I don't understand why GM and the government which has its interest in GM can't use our plant as a model to built a nat gas vehicle. They could use this plant to build a protype nat gas vehicle and just build so many cars a yr.
Permalink Reply by ken hatcher on October 14, 2011 at 2:31

Entirely to logical, the goverment does not work like that.

 

Permalink Reply by jffree1 on October 14, 2011 at 7:50

kcm, I'm sorry y'all are losing the GM plant and those jobs.  Hopefully, someone will find a creative alternate use for that facility soon.

I thought it was encouraging that Honda was expanding to offer the CIVIC NG in 36 states, whereas, it is only offered in four now.  That makes me think they are receiving requests for the car where it is not offered now, don't you agree?

That could only be a good thing for the future of natural gas (and mineral owners), IMO.

Permalink Reply by kittycatmama on October 18, 2011 at 15:28
Jiffree1, do you do mineral searches for Eagle Ford south? I think you are the one Ben recommended to me. If so, I will friend you
Permalink Reply by jffree1 on October 20, 2011 at 6:23
KCM, I sent you a friend request.
Permalink Reply by DrWAVeSport Cd1 on October 16, 2011 at 5:31

Jffree 1,

The Shreveport GM Plant and Our GM Employees need Our local and state Business and Gov. leaders to find a way to keep the doors open and this plant in operation.  It can be done!  They aren't talking to the right people. 

I would have bought the 1st CNG Hummer H3 off the Line, or GM 4X4 Truck, or GM anything CNG...from these Shreveport Plant Employees!

We drive 2 GM vehicles around our place.  Not an advertisement, just fact.

Just DO IT, GM and Louisiana!

DrWAVeSport Cd1  10/16/2011

 

Permalink Reply by kittycatmama on October 18, 2011 at 15:27
Couldn't have said it better Dr. Wave

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