Honda Canada says a media report suggesting the automaker may transfer some of its production from Canada to the United States is inaccurate.
Japan’s Nikkei financial newspaper ran a story April 15 that Honda intends to relocate a significant portion of its Canadian CR-V and Civic manufacturing from its plant in Alliston, Ont., to the United States. The move, the report said, is a bid to increase the percentage of vehicles produced domestically to 90 percent of U.S. sales, a rise from the current figure of approximately 70 percent.
Honda Canada released a statement April 15 to refute the article, saying its Alliston facility will “operate at full capacity for the foreseeable future.” Honda’s facility in Alliston employs approximately 4,200 workers and manufactured roughly 375,000 vehicles in Canada in 2023….