Sunday, June 5, 2011

Kia plant in Georgia to expand for strengthen fair regional market

Tbilisi - South Korean manufacturer, Kia Motors continues to develop its business in European soil. Kia Motors Manufacturing Georgia, Inc. (KMMG) says it wants to expand the plant for more production capacity in 2012.

Kia Sorento (Autoblog)


That is, perluasaan this factory in which there are four parts, namely the production of printing (the body), welding, painting and general assembly to increase capacity to 360 thousand vehicles annually.

In addition, KMMG has hired 1000 new employees and there will be three shifts again starting later this month bringing the total number of workers will grow by more than 3000 people.

"The success of Georgia plant, West Point, is the result of the dedication of our team members and is a world-class quality vehicles that we build, and the improvement and addition of employees is further evidence of our commitment to U.S. and local economies.

Investment fund digelontorkan Kia to West Point reached 1 billion U.S. dollars with additional funding of 100 million U.S. dollars. Where there will be additions such as press machines weighing 5.400 tons, which will be installed in the printing plant.

In addition there will be additional to the welding robot and the expansion of the painting room. In addition, more than 500 additional parking provided for employees.