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Exclusive: Toyota, Mazda to build $1.6 billion plant in Alabama - sources
Reuters ^
| January 9, 2018
| David Shepardson, Bernie Woodall
Posted on 01/09/2018 2:56:14 PM PST by mdittmar
(Reuters) - Alabama will be the site of a new $1.6 billion Toyota Motor Corp and Mazda Motor Corp auto plant, a victory for President Donald Trump who had prodded manufacturers to build new U.S. facilities and threatened tariffs on foreign production, sources said on Tuesday.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; US: Alabama
KEYWORDS: automakers; manufacturing; mazda; toyota; winning
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The plant, which will employ up to 4,000 people and produce about 300,000 vehicles a year, will be located in Huntsville, Alabama, and is a boon for the state, where Toyota has a large engine plant and an existing network of automotive suppliers.
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posted on
01/09/2018 2:56:14 PM PST
by
mdittmar
To: mdittmar
Alabama’s on a roll lately.
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posted on
01/09/2018 3:02:29 PM PST
by
TwelveOfTwenty
(Prayers for our country and President Trump)
To: mdittmar
We accept it here in Alabama
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posted on
01/09/2018 3:08:00 PM PST
by
southland
( I have faith in the creator Republicans freed the slaves. Heb 13:2 Deplorable...Trump 45)
To: TwelveOfTwenty
“Exclusive: Toyota, Mazda to build $1.6 billion plant in Alabama - sources”
Excellent! Don’t build anything in blue states. F them.
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posted on
01/09/2018 3:08:18 PM PST
by
Bonemaker
To: TwelveOfTwenty
And I keep seeing articles about how dumb people in the South are. Guess the hillbillies are having the last laugh.
To: ilovesarah2012
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posted on
01/09/2018 3:50:33 PM PST
by
dunblak
To: mdittmar
Too bad they just elected a knuckle dragging Democrat into office.
To: Bonemaker
Alabama is now a blue state.
To: mdittmar
Mercedes, Honda, Hyundai, Airbus, and now Toyota and Mazda, among others, all have assembly plants in Alabama.
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posted on
01/09/2018 3:51:19 PM PST
by
Will88
To: mdittmar
Another win for a Right to Work State.
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posted on
01/09/2018 3:53:37 PM PST
by
donozark
(Where in the world is MATT LAUER??)
To: Sam Gamgee
Alabama is now a blue state. Oh please.
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posted on
01/09/2018 3:56:43 PM PST
by
Radio Free Tuscaloosa
(God Bless...America!! - Adm. Jeremiah Denton (RIP))
To: Sam Gamgee
Alabama is now a blue state.
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And what color is the sky on your planet?
To: Sam Gamgee
Very temporary senator...I hope.
To: mdittmar
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posted on
01/09/2018 4:15:58 PM PST
by
6ppc
(It's torch and pitchfork time)
To: ilovesarah2012
Guess the hillbillies are having the last laugh.ROTFLMAOOOO!
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posted on
01/09/2018 4:19:10 PM PST
by
6ppc
(It's torch and pitchfork time)
To: Sam Gamgee
Only in liberal imaginations...
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posted on
01/09/2018 4:23:27 PM PST
by
BamaBelle
(I will always support Roy Moore!)
To: mdittmar
Where are they going to find workers for the new plant? Every existing Toyota plant in the US has 100’s of job openings.
To: EC Washington
Force all the career snowflakes in college to get a damn job??
To: EC Washington
Last time I checked there were 90,000,000 Americans not working. Maybe they can find a few, ya think?
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posted on
01/09/2018 4:26:55 PM PST
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
To: mdittmar
Meanwhile on CNN it’s Russia, Russia, Russia.
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posted on
01/09/2018 4:31:56 PM PST
by
McGruff
(Lock Her Up! In a Padded Cell!)
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