Fremont’s worst fears have been realized.
Toyota (TM) today said it will end production at the Fremont, California NUMMI automobile assembly plant in March 2010.
Formerly a joint venture with General Motors - NUMMI is an acronym for New United Motor Manufacturing Inc. - the plant is the single largest private employer in Alamdea County, just across San Francisco Bay from Silicon Valley. GM walked away from the venture when it filed Chapter 11; the company’s stake is now part of Motors Liquidation Co., which is being liquidated under bankruptcy court supervisioin.
Toyota said its board today voted to end production at the plant.
Opened in 1984, the NUMMI plant has 4,600 employees; it builds the Corolla compact and Tacoma pickup, and until recently also built Pontiac Vice station wagons. The NUMMI site says the plant has 3,600 suppliers, including more than 1,000 in California; NUMMI asserts on the site that the total number of jobs supported by the NUMMI food chain is about 50,000.
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