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BMW Manufacturing Company is a subsidiary of the Bayerische Motoren Werke, the well-known automobile giant based in Germany. The company is amongst the largest and most successful automobile manufacturers of the world competing with other major companies like Audi, Porsche, etc. The BMW Manufacturing Co. manufactures automobiles and engines at their various manufacturing plants located all over the world.

BMW’s South Carolina plant recently received a prestigious award by NAFTZ, the National Association of Foreign Trade Zones, which recognized the plant as the largest exporter of automobiles in the USA! The award also recognized the company’s marked improvement from the previous year, the most amongst all other car companies in the states.

The South Carolina Plant is the sole producer of the company’s three major models. These models are the BMW X3, BMW X5 and BMW X6. While X3 and X5 are sports utility vehicles, the X6 is a sport utility coupe. The plant produces around 1000 vehicles on a daily basis and exports a major portion of these units to markets it serves overseas. After receiving the award and gaining recognition from the NAFTZ, BMW has made plans for expanding the plant further so that production and exports can rise even further.

The award was received by Sky Foster, Manager of Corporate Communications at the BMW Manufacturing Co. Foster thanked BMW’s associates, Tier I Suppliers, as well as the authorities controlling exports and imports at the port of South Carolina for the cooperation they had been showing. Foster also stated happily that BMW Manufacturing Co. was proud of this recent accomplishment, and would come up with even better results in the near future. NAFTZ’s activities were also praised by Lewis Liebowitz, Chairman of the BMW Manufacturing Company, who stated that the initiatives taken by the association have helped maintain a healthy competition among the various automobile companies and also helped the US in emerging as a large exporter globally.

BMW’s expansion plans include investing $900  million on the South Carolina plant and adding another model to the production department within the plant. The expansion process is expected to be complete by the year 2014. It is anticipated that the plant shall produce 3 million passenger cars every year with around 70% of this production being exported to international markets.

BMW’s South Carolina plant is now the largest manufacturing park in the US, and the expansion will certainly help in maintaining this status over the coming years.