Teijin Automotive Technologies officials cut the ribbon at the grand opening ceremony on June 7. 

Teijin Automotive Technologies held a ribbon cutting on Tuesday, June 7, for a new manufacturing plant now open near San Antonio in Seguin. Teijin also revealed the facility will manufacture the pickup boxes for the next generation Toyota's Tundra pickup trucks, a news release says.

Seguin and the surrounding area has become an increasingly popular location for manufacturing plants. Continental Automotive recently announced it was in the process of hiring 100 people at a $110 million facility in New Braunfels.

Teijin broke ground on the new Seguin facility in 2019. Roughly 200 people will be employed in engineering, administrative, and production positions at the new facility.

The now completed 200,000 square-foot facility includes fully-automated production cells and several large compression molding presses – including a 5,200-ton press – the largest such press west of the Mississippi River in the United States, Teijin claims.

The Tundra's pickup box will be molded in one piece before being assembled with the tailgate and shipped to Toyota's manufacturing facility in San Antonio for final assembly. Full production on the pickup box began in November 2021, according to the release.

"The opportunity to produce the pickup box for the highly-anticipated next generation Tundra is something we were honored and excited to get," says Steve Rooney, CEO of Teijin Automotive Technologies and general manager of Teijin’s Composites Business Unit, in the release.

The company has also been manufacturing the pickup boxes for the Toyota Tacoma since 2004 at its Tijuana, Mexico plant.