Timeline
| April 2, 2002 Location Announcement |
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| April 16, 2002 Groundbreaking Ceremony |
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| November 2002 Start of Construction |
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| February 19, 2003 First Steel Beams Erected |
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| February 23, 2003 Production and Maintenance Advertisement |
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| Fall 2003 First Production and Maintenance Hires |
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| January 5, 2004 Production Team Members Start Work |
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| January 5, 2004 HMMA 2004 Kick-Off Event |
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| January 2004 Some Maintenance and Production Team Members Go to Korea for Training |
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| February 5, 2004 The first of HMMA’s two 5,400 ton stamping presses departs from Tokyo, Japan |
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| March 9, 2004 The stamping press arrives at Alabama State Port Authority’s Pier D-2 in Mobile. The 268,520 pound crown and 262,171 stamping bed of the press are transported via barge up the Alabama River. The remaining parts are loaded onto more than 80 trucks for transport to the HMMA Plant Site |
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| March 15, 2004 Crown and stamping bed of the press arrive in Burkeville via the Alabama River and are loaded onto dual lane trucks for transport to the HMMA Plant Site |
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| June 2004 Completion of Facility, Part-Time Trials Begin |
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| July 2004 Trial Production of the Next-Generation Sonata Begins |
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| May 20, 2005 Grand Opening Ceremony |
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| Spring 2005 Job 1 Vehicle Production Begins |
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 April 18, 2006 Production of the Next-Generation Santa Fe Begins |
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| 2007 Plant approaches full capacity producing approximately 1,200 vehicles per day.May 2007 |
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