Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky
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Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky, Inc. (TMMK) is an automobile manufacturing factory in Georgetown, Kentucky, USA. It is part of Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America (TEMA), owned by Toyota Motor Company of Japan.
The plant was established in 1986 and is Toyota's largest manufacturing facility outside of Japan. It began production in the fall of 1988, building the 1989 model 4-cylinder Camry. It presently builds the Avalon, Camry, and Camry Solara coupe and convertible. The factory also produces 4-cylinder and V6 engines and powertrain parts with an annual capacity of 500,000 vehicles and 500,000 engines.
Toyota will reportedly move some Camry production to Subaru of Indiana Automotive, Inc. in 2006 to make way for production of a tall wagon based on the Camry architecture. Harbour Consulting rated it as the eighth most efficient auto plant in North America in 2006[1].
[edit] Envrionmental traits
TMMK was designated as a "zero landfill facility" in 2005.[2] The designation means that all of the waste produced on-site is either recycled or reused and nothing is sent to landfills. One of the big changes came when the facility switched from plastic cups and trays to all paper products. All of the waste is composted, totalling three tons per day with excess capacity — enough that the manufacturing headquarters of TEMA, about an hour's drive to the north in Erlanger, Kentucky, can send their waste down for compost.
The grounds also sports a very large vegetable garden. In 2005, the produce produced at TMMK helped a nearby charitable organization, God's Pantry, distribute 2.5 million pounds (1100 t) of produce, exceeding its yearly goal by 2 million pounds (930 t).[2] The garden also produces a full crop of pumpkins used at the Toyota Child Development Center for carving at Halloween, and corn which enhances the compost pile.
