Toyota Motor Manufacturing Missouri (TMMMO), formerly the Bodine Pattern Company, is an American manufacturing plant in

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that focuses on building

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s for

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s built by

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. It is a subsidiary of

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, itself a subsidiary of

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of Japan.

History

In 1912, Jesse Bodine founded the Bodine Pattern Company in

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. Bodine produced mold castings for various customers including automotive. When Toyota started to expand its manufacturing presence in North America in the late 1980s, they turned to Bodine to supply aluminum parts. In 1990, Toyota purchased the company, renaming it to Bodine Aluminum. In 1991, Toyota broke ground on an additional plant in Troy, Missouri that would open in 1993. Bodine Aluminum opened a plant in

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in 2003, and closed its St. Louis plant in December 2018. In 2020, the company's name changed from Bodine Aluminum to Toyota Motor Manufacturing Missouri, while the Jackson plant became

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. In 2021, the company gave two

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totaling to 28 thousand dollars to Mercy hospitals to pay for those affected by the

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. In 2023, they gave more grants totaling to 230 thousand dollars to the

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and

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to fund educational programs. In 2022, Toyota funded 109 million dollars to increase salaries and produce specialized cylinder heads for

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Production

Toyota Motor Manufacturing Missouri has the ability to build more than 3 million cylinder heads annually on three production lines.

References

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