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Posted on 18 Jul 2008

Yamaha completes motorcycle wheel production site in Vietnam

Japan's Yamaha Motor Co. announced Wednesday it has constructed a motorcycle wheel manufacturing wing at its parts factory in Vietnam.

The company invested 1.5 billion yen (US$14.31 million) in the 9,000 square meter facility, which was built on the site of subsidiary Yamaha Motor Parts Mfg. Vietnam Co. in Hanoi.

Slated to go into service in September, the new addition will be capable of churning out 600,000 cast wheels a year for high-performance motorcycles. Most of the cast wheels the company has sold in Vietnam to date have been procured from Indonesia and Taiwan.