Honda of America Mfg.

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Honda of America Mfg.
legal form	Incorporated
founding	February 1978
Seat	Marysville , Ohio ,
management	Tsuneo Tanai (President)
Number of employees	Marysville (motorcycle): ~ 450 (closed) Marysville (car): ~ 4,400 Anna: ~ 2,400 East Liberty: ~ 2,400
Branch	Automobile production, engine construction, motorcycle manufacturer (formerly)
Website	www.ohio.honda.com

The Honda of America Mfg., Inc. in Marysville, Ohio

The Honda of America Mfg., Inc. (the abbreviation Mfg stands for Manufacturing ) is a subsidiary of the Japanese Honda Giken Kōgyō Kabushiki-gaisha based in Marysville , Ohio . The company was founded in February 1978, and is in addition to the assembly of automobiles as engine manufacturers operate. The own production of motorcycles has meanwhile been given up. A total of around 9200 employees work for the company in three, previously four, branches.

The main plant located in Marysville, which started operations in November 1982, is also often referred to as the Marysville Auto Plant due to its location . Around 4400 people are employed here. Honda had invested a sum of 4 billion US dollars to build the plant . The company premises currently cover an area of ​​324,000 square meters. Around 440,000 vehicles are assembled here annually for the North American market. In addition to Honda, models from the luxury Acura brand are also completed here.

history

The first model to be built in Marysville was the Honda Accord , which rolled off the assembly line here as a sedan, wagon, hatchback and coupé. Honda then established the Acura Vigor as a luxury model of the same construction , followed by the Acura CL and the Acura TL . The Acura RDX has also been assembled here for a few years . The Accord was largely outsourced to other plants in 2008, so that only the Coupé model is a product of the plant.

Honda had already established its first local subsidiary in Marysville in 1978 with the so-called Marysville Motorcycle Plant , where it was dedicated to the manufacture of motorcycles. When the new company was founded, the existing plant was simply incorporated there. The two models Honda Gold Wing and the Honda Magna were manufactured here for a long time . In the spring of 2009, however, Honda moved motorcycle production for the North American markets to Japan . Around 450 workers lost their jobs as a result of this relocation.

The company then set up its second office in the mid-1980s with an investment of 1.7 billion US dollars in the small town of Anna . 2400 people work on the 162,000 square meter site. Four- cylinder and V6 engines for various vehicle models are manufactured here. But drive shafts , crankshafts , brake systems , camshafts and cylinder liners are also produced in Anna. The plant produces 1,180,000 engines annually for local and surrounding markets.

The company's second auto plant was built in East Liberty with an investment of $ 1.1 billion . Around 2,400 people are employed in the plant. Work started in December 1989. The company premises here cover an area of ​​171,000 square meters. The main product of the plant is the Honda Civic . In 2002 Honda added the Honda Element to the program, which is built here both as a left-hand drive and with a right-hand drive for the export market. It wasn't until 2007 that two more models were added: the Honda CR-V and the Honda FCX Clarity . The latest model from the plant, however, is the Honda Accord Crosstour, introduced in 2009 .

Model overview

Type	1980s										1990s										2000s										2010s
		1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	0	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	0	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	0	1	2
	Coupe of the middle class																CL 1996 to 1999					CL 2001 to 2003
	Notchback sedan of middle class																		TL 1998 to 2003					TL 2003 to 2008					TL since 2008
	Sport utility vehicle																										RDX 2006 to 2009			RDX 2009 to 2012			RDX since 2012
	Coupe of the lower middle class											Civic Coupé 1991 to 1995				Civic Coupé 1995 to 2000					Civic Coupe 2000 to 2005					Civic Coupe 2005 to 2008
																				Civic Si 1999 to 2000
	Notchback sedan lower middle class					Civic 1985 to 1987			Civic 1988 to 1991			Civic 1991 to 1995				Civic 1995 to 2000					Civic 2000 to 2005					Civic 2005 to 2008
																			Civic GX 1998 to 2000		Civic GX 2000 to 2005					Civic GX 2005 to 2008
	Coupe of the middle class		Accord Coupé 1982 to 1985			Accord Coupé 1985 to 1989				Accord Coupé 1989 to 1993					Accord Coupé 1994 to 1997				Accord Coupé 1998 to 2002				Accord Coupé 2002 to 2007					Accord Coupé since 2007
	Notchback sedan of middle class		Accord 1982 to 1985			Accord 1985 to 1989				Accord 1989 to 1993					Accord 1994 to 1997				Accord 1998 to 2002				Accord 2002 to 2007					Accord since 2007
																			Inspire 1998 to 2003									Inspire since 2007
																			Saber 1998 to 2003										FCX Clarity since 2008
	Combination of the middle class											Accord Wagon 1991 to 1994			Accord Wagon 1994 to 1997
	Sport utility vehicle																						Element 2002 to 2007					Element 2007 to 2008	Element 2008 to 2011
																												Element SC 2007 to 2008
																												CR-V 2007 to 2012					CR-V since 2012
																														Accord Crosstour since 2009
	motorcycle	Gold Wing 1981 to 2009
			Magna / Super Magna 1982 to 2003

Within the vehicle identification number , the plant uses the world manufacturer code 1HG for passenger cars and 5J6 for sport utility vehicles and fuel cell vehicles. The factory code is the letter A for Marysville and L for East Liberty . For the motorcycles from Marysville, however, the world manufacturer code 1HF was in use. The world manufacturer code 19U is used for vehicles of the Acura brand .

See also

• Honda Engineering North America Inc. (Marysville and Anna, since 1985)
• Honda Transmission Manufacturing of America, Inc. ( Russel Point , since 1982)

Web links

• Official website of the Honda of America Mfg., Inc.