NEMS360.com is reporting that Toyota is looking to get Blue Springs going again.
Toyota is considering restarting its delayed Blue Springs plant, according to sources familiar with the matter, The Associated Press reports.
Toyota plans to bring a factory in Mississippi onstream, possibly in mid-2011, the Nikkei newspaper reported. Originally slated to start operations this year, the facility will produce about 100,000 Corolla sedans a year, the paper said.
Toyota officials in the U.S. could not be reached for comment.
However, sources tell the Daily Journal that Toyota plans to make an announcement Thursday regarding the future of Toyota Motor Manufacturing Mississippi, which has been idled since December 2008.
The Mississippi plant is half-finished, but work on getting it up and running will begin, and production will start by the latter half of next year, under the new plan pending directors’ approval, The Associated Press reports
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