Eighteen suppliers to be located on the
site of Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Texas (TMMTX) will employ 1,500 and invest
about $150 million, Governor Rick Perry said today in a news conference. Employment
and investment are 50% greater than earlier estimates.
TMMTX will employ about 2,000 team members and invest $800 million in a plant
that will produce 150,000 Tundra pickup trucks annually. When production begins
in late 2006, on-site suppliers will provide a myriad of parts, materials and
logistics services.
"The advantages of locating these suppliers on site include holding down
logistics costs as well as the ability to work closely with Toyota in assuring
quality," said T.J. Tajima, president of TMMTX. "The suppliers appreciate
the support provided by the city, county and state to help them create these
jobs."
Among the 18 suppliers are several joint ventures involving business partners
from San Antonio. A list of the suppliers follows:
Texas Operation Name
Joint Venture Partners
Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) Partners
Commodity/service
AGC Automotive Americas
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Glass assemblies
ARK, Inc.
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Industrial waste management, recycling
Avanzar Interior Technologies
SAT Auto Technologies, Ltd. & Johnson Controls, Inc.
(JCI)
Berto Guerra
Seats and interior parts
Curtis-Maruyasu America, Inc.
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Tubing
Futaba Industrial Texas Corp.
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Stamped parts
Green Metals, Inc.
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Scrap steel recycling
HERO Assemblers, LLP
Valiente International Ventures & Toyota Tsusho America
(TAI)
Frank Herrera
Assembly of tire onto wheel
HERO Logistics, LLP
Valiente Intl. Ventures & TAI
Frank Herrera
Logistics
Metalsa
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Truck frames
Millennium Steel Service Texas, LLC
Henry Jackson (Millennium Steel Service Indiana) &
TAI
Henry Jackson
Steel processing
PPG Industries, Inc.
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Glass assemblies
Reyes-Amtex
Reyes Industries & Amtex
Fernando Reyes
Interior parts
Reyes Automotive Group
Reyes Industries & Lear
Fernando Reyes
Interior/exterior parts
Takumi Stamping Texas, Inc.
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Stamped parts
Tenneco Automotive
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Exhaust systems
Toyoda-Gosei Texas LLC
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Interior/exterior parts
Toyotetsu Texas
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Stamped parts
Vutex, Inc.
Operational Technologies Corp. & Vuteq
Max Navarro
Assembly services
