More Work

Honda is about to start a second production shift in southeastern Indiana that builds the Civic sedan and Natural Gas model after the onslaught of hiring almost 1000 new employees. This new shift will be put into place at the Greensburg factory on October 24th and will double the plant's workforce and increase annual production to 200 000 vehicles.

Earlier in the year, Honda cut production in half at the Greensburg plant due to the tsunami impacting worldwide production but normality has since been returned to the plant last month. Thankfully, no workers were laid off in the downtime.

Honda's Greensburg plant is the exclusive plant to build the 2012 Honda Civic Natural Gas. Honda believes it will be selling 4x more than before considering it is expanding the availability of the model from 72 Honda dealers in 4 states to 200 dealers in 36 states.