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Chrysler’s Toledo facility will build more than 500,000 Jeeps next year, plant manager Zach Leroux announced earlier this week, which means output will double compared to 2012, when approximately 275,000 vehicles were produced.
The Toledo plant has about 4,000 employees, after more than 1,800 new workers were hired before the redesigned 2014 Jeep Cherokee was launched. The all-new crossover will be built alongside the popular Jeep Wrangler.
“Now we’re producing on both shifts, six days a week, 10-hour shifts, with the goal of full volume. And we’re about 90 percent there, “ Leroux said. “We’re still working out some of the equipment bugs, [and] some of the processing bugs to make sure we’re able to achieve it, but we’re 90 percent of the way there now, and very shortly we’ll be there.”
About 226,000 Jeeps rolled off the Toledo assembly line from January through October 2013.
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“Now we’re producing on both shifts, six days a week, 10-hour shifts, with the goal of full volume. And we’re about 90 percent there, “ Leroux said. “We’re still working out some of the equipment bugs, [and] some of the processing bugs to make sure we’re able to achieve it, but we’re 90 percent of the way there now, and very shortly we’ll be there.”
About 226,000 Jeeps rolled off the Toledo assembly line from January through October 2013.
Story via MotorTrend
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