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August 11, 2017 • Vo. 39. No. 32 • 28 pages
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By JACK WEATHERLY jack.weatherly@msbusiness.com
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Health Care Mississippi {Section begins P14}
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Southern pine beetles threaten swaths of timberland
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MISSISSIPPI SEEN AS CONTENDER FOR TOYOTA-MAZDA PLANT
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July 19 view of southern pine beetle outbreak on the Bienville Ranger District.
The same day that workers at the Nissan North America plant in Canton voted strongly against unionizing, another Japanese automaker with Mississippi ties, Toyota, announced it would team up with Mazda Motor Corp. to build another assembly plant in the South. A vote to join the United Auto Workers union would have sent a message to foreign automakers, which have turned to the South for manufacturing facilities and have basically avoided union organizing. Toyota and Mazda announced Friday that they plan to spend $1.6 billion to jointly build the plant and create up to 4,000 jobs. The plant will have an annual production capacity of about 300,000 vehicles, and will produce Toyota Corollas as well as a new Mazda crossover vehicle for the North American market. Toyota wouldn’t say where the plant would be built. But because the new plant will build the Corolla, “chances are it will be located near Toyota’s current Corolla plant in Mississippi to be close to parts supply companies. The companies expect the plant to begin operations by 2021,” Bloomberg reported. Toyota said it changed its plan to make Corollas at a plant in Guanajuato, Mexico, now under construction, after reassessing the market. Instead it will produce Tacoma pickups there, Toyota President Akio Toyoda said Friday. Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant said Tuesday in an email that “we stand ready to grow our existing See PLANT, Page 27
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