Subaru to Add New Jobs And Increase Production at Indiana Plant

Fuji Heavy Industries, the company that runs Subaru announced that it will increase the production output of it’s U.S. Indiana plant and will add new jobs to the site in order to meet the surging demand registered on the country’s auto market, as Bloomberg reports.

The production site should see its annual capacity rise by 40 percent, reaching a total figure of 140,000 Subaru vehicles per year by the end of 2010. The factory’s also has a second production line, which is dedicated to Toyota models (Fuji Heavy Industries is a Toyota Motor Corporations affiliate).

According to the aforementioned source the current expansion (the fifth in the course of a year) is the greatest in the factory’s history. The plant should reach a total output capacity of 220,000 vehicles by the end of the current year.

“I’ve been here 21 years, since it opened, and we’ve never had growth this phenomenal,” Tom Easterday, the site’s executive vice president was quoted as saying by the aforementioned source.

Last month, Subaru of America registered it’s best ever sales for the month, as it sold 23,198 vehicles to U.S. customers. The volume can be translated into a 28 percent growth, compared to the one registered in April 2009.

The new development is part of a bigger Subaru global production expansion plan, which saw the Japanese carmaker register a production record in the first three months of the current year, when the company built a total of 164,009 vehicles, a figure that can be translated into a 166.9 percent increase.