Toyota Motor Manufacturing, West Virginia, Inc. | |
Type: | Subsidiary |
Location: | Buffalo, West Virginia |
Key People: | David Rosier (president) |
Products: | Engines and transmissions |
Parent: | Toyota Motor North America |
Industry: | Automotive |
Num Employees: | 2,000 |
Num Employees Year: | 2022 |
Footnotes: | [1] |
Toyota Motor Manufacturing West Virginia (TMMWV) is a Toyota Motor Corporation factory in Buffalo, West Virginia. It is a subsidiary of Toyota Motor North America, itself a subsidiary of Toyota Motor Corporation of Japan. It is estimated to date, the company has spent nearly to build the automobile engine and transmission plant. The plant solely builds engines and transmissions; no vehicles are produced at this facility.
In February 2021, Toyota Motor Corp announced it would invest $210 million to expand engine production in West Virginia and add 100 new jobs.
The Japanese automaker said it would boost capacity by 70,000 engines a year at the Buffalo, West Virginia plant, up from the nearly 1 million transmissions and engines it produces annually for vehicles assembled in North America.[2]