About 300 jobs added at Toyota

Lexus, Corolla and Matrix keep Cambridge factory busy
More good news for this area's car manufacturing sector as Toyota is adding 400 more employees to its production staff.
The last time a similar announcement was made it was to add 400 to the Woodstock facility to ramp up delivery of the RAV4. This time, the new faces are being added at the Cambridge plant.
Here's the story from the Waterloo Region Record, or as I like to call it: The Kitchener Record. 

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Toyota expanding Lexus production in Cambridge, hiring 400

CAMBRIDGE – Toyota is expanding production of the Lexus RX sport utility vehicle in Cambridge, a move that will result in about 400 new jobs.

Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada will increase Lexus production by 30,000 vehicles, to 104,000 a year, starting in early 2014, the company announced Tuesday.

“For almost nine years now, Canada has had the only Lexus production outside of Japan,” company chair Ray Tanguay said in a news release. “New jobs, along with new technology, is great news for Canada.”

The new jobs will bring the company’s employment in Cambridge and Woodstock to 7,300, and increase it annual production of vehicles to 500,000 units.

Toyota also makes the Corolla and Matrix in Cambridge, and the RAV4 in Woodstock.

Half of the additional Lexus vehicles Toyota will produce in Cambridge will be the RX450h, the hybrid electric version of the vehicle.

“This is a big and ambitious project with new technology, exacting standards and tight timelines,” said Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada president Brian Krinock. “Our team members have demonstrated time and time again that they thrive on these kinds of challenges.”