PESQUERIA, Mexico—Quality and production runs are under way at Kia’s new vehicle assembly plant here, which is considered 95 percent completed. Construction and tooling of the $3 billion plant was completed in just 13 months. The factory should have an annual production capacity of 300,000 vehicles.
Less than four years after opening, Kia Motors Manufacturing Georgia Inc. (KMMG) celebrated the assembly of its one millionth vehicle on July, 11, 2013.
ATLANTA—The Georgia Supreme Court sided with Gov. Nathan Deal and Kia Motors in an open records battle over access to hiring documents from Kia's assembly plant in West Point, GA. In the lawsuit, several unemployed, union auto workers accused Kia and state officials of creating a screening and hiring process that excluded union workers.
WEST POINT, GA—Four people who unsuccessfully applied for jobs at the Kia Motors assembly plant here are suing the company, claiming they were discriminated against because they had belonged to a union.