WEST POINT, Ga. – Monday, September 29th, team members of Kia Motors Manufacturing Georgia, Inc. (KMMG) celebrated the start of production for the new 2016 Kia Optima with a ceremony inside the facility’s General Assembly shop.
The new Optima is another is a growing line of successful launches for the west Georgia plant which began production of it’s first vehicle, the Sorento on November 16, 2009.
The first US assembled Optima rolled off the line at KMMG on September 2, 2011. These vehicles helped KMMG’s growth to more than 3,000 team members and have resulted in creating more than 15,000 jobs in West Point and surrounding communities.
KMMG President and CEO Hyun-Jong Shin had this to say, "I am so proud of all that our team members have accomplished and the hard work they have put into production of the all-new 2016 Kia Optima. The KMMG team continues to demonstrate a dedication to quality that is second to none with a commitment to producing world class products".
KMMG has produced almost 1.8 million vehicles to date and continues to build on it’s success to improve efficiency in all of it’s operations. This includes an ongoing multi-million dollar expansion of the plant’s vehicle processing center, KMMG’s hub for shipping vehicles to dealerships around North America by railroad and by truck.
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