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Honda to Shutter Sayama Plant in Japan
Honda Motor Co. says it will close its 53-year-old Sayama assembly plant in Japan in 2022 and transfer the facility’s operations to the company’s 4-year-old Yorii factory nearby.
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Honda Motor Co. says it will close its 53-year-old Sayama assembly plant in Japan in 2022 and transfer the facility’s operations to the company’s 4-year-old Yorii factory nearby.
Sayma currenly produces sedans, mini-MPVs and minivans. Honda says that moving the facility’s capacity to Yorii will enable the latter complex to accommodate company’s most advanced product and manufacturing technologies. Yorii also will become Honda’s center for developing, standardizing, testing and deploying advanced production technologies for other factories.
Honda also plans production updates at its Suzuka mini-vehicle factory. That facility will support Yorii’s manufacturing technology development efforts as they apply to small cars.
Finally, Honda has begun talks with Yachiyo Industry Co. to acquire a factory Yachiyo uses to build low-volume-production vehicles for the carmaker. The facility will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Honda.
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