Chrysler begins production at new nine-speed transmission plant, may consider Jeep production expansion
According to the IHS Automotive powertrain forecast, the company will ramp up nine-speed transmission production between both the Kokomo and Tipton plants to more than 842,000 units by 2017.
Chrysler Group has revived a facility in Indiana (US) to create the Tipton Transmission Plant (TTP) for production of nine-speed automatic transmissions. Chrysler announced the USD172-million investment in February 2013. TTP is near Kokomo in Indiana where Chrysler has three other facilities. The TTP facility will employ 600 by the end of 2014, build 400,000 transmissions this year, and increase capacity to 800,000 units annually in 2015, while being used in North America for the Jeep Cherokee and the Chrysler 200, as well as exports to Italy, Turkey, Brazil, and China.
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