Hyundai Motor Company maintains 12 manufacturing facilities in 10 countries, along withassembling vehicles inassembly plants owned by local companies in several countries.
The Ulsan Plant is Hyundai Motor’s main production plant and R&D Centre.[1][2][3][4] The Ulsan complex sits on 1,200 acres and is the world’s largest single automobile plant. The complex comprises five independent plants which employ over 34,000 workers capable of producing 5,600 vehicles daily, producing 38.2 percent of the nation’s vehicles and R&D Centres.[5] The plant also has its own port where up to three 42,000-ton ships can anchor at the same time. The plant is the birthplace of theSouth Korean automobile industry and is a self-contained facility that operates its own fire station, hospital and security vehicles.[6] The production of thePony, South Korea’s first mass-produced car, began in the plant. It also has Research and Development Centre of Hyundai Motors.
| Established | 1968[7] |
| Location | Ulsan,South Gyeongsang Province, South Korea |
| Area | 5,000,000 m2 (500 ha; 1,236 acres) |
| Plants | 5 |
| Employees | 34,000 |
| Annual capacity | 1,400,000 vehicles |
Completed in 1968, Plant 1 has the capacity to produce 311,000 vehicles per year.[7][8]
Completed in 1986, Plant 2 has the capacity to produce 257,000 vehicles per year.[7][10][11]
Completed in 1990, Plant 3 has the capacity to produce 333,000 vehicles per year.[7][12][13]
Completed in 1991, Plant 4 has the capacity to produce 235,000 vehicles per year.[7]
Completed in 1991, Plant 5 has the capacity to produce 264,000 vehicles per year.[7][16]
Expected to be completed in 2026, Plant 6 has the capacity to produce 200,000 battery-electric vehicles per year.[17]
The Asan Plant, consisting of one plant, mainly produces the Sonata and Grandeur sedans. It also produces the Nu, Theta, and Lambda engines.
| Established | 1996 |
| Location | Asan,South Chungcheong Province, South Korea |
| Area | 1,830,000 m2 (183 ha; 452 acres) |
| Plants | 1 |
| Employees | 4,000 |
| Annual capacity | 300,000 vehicles 600,000 engines |
The Jeonju Plant, consisting of one plant, exclusively produces commercial vehicles. The plant is located inWanju-gun,North Jeolla Province near Jeonju-si.
Gwangju Global Motors (GGM) is ajoint venture manufacturing plant betweenHyundai Motor Company and theGwangju city government. It is opened in 2021 as the first newly-built automobile manufacturing plant in South Korea since 1998.[19] It is the only Hyundai-operated manufacturing plant in South Korea without the presence of workers unions, which enables average annual pay to be less than half than other Hyundai plants.[20]
| Established | 2021 |
| Location | Gwangsan-gu,Gwangju, South Korea |
| Area | 604,339 m2 (60 ha; 149 acres)[21] |
| Plants | 1 |
| Employees | 1,000[22] |
| Annual capacity | 70,000 vehicles |
Opened in 2005, Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Alabama (HMMA) is a manufacturing facility owned by Hyundai Motor Company employing approximately 3,000 people. Located inMontgomery, Alabama, the facility marked the official start of production with the 2006 Sonata in May 2005. HMMA is capable of producing up to 399,500 vehicles per year at full capacity. Apart from vehicle assembly, HMMA also produces Smartstream G2.5 GDI, G1.6 T-GDI, G2.0 Atkinson, G2.5 GDI, and G2.5 T-GDI engines.[23]
| Established | 2005 |
| Location | Montgomery, Alabama, United States |
| Area | 7,160,000 m2 (716 ha; 1,769 acres) |
| Plants | 1 |
| Employees | 3,100 |
| Annual capacity | 370,000 vehicles[24] 700,000 engines |
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Located inPiracicaba,São Paulo, Hyundai Motor Brasil (HMB) is the first Hyundai Motor plant in Latin America. With an investment of around R$1.2 billion, the plant has the capacity to produce 180,000 cars per year under three shifts. The plant produced theHB20 subcompact line-up, which stands for 'Hyundai Brasil'.
| Established | 2012 |
| Location | Piracicaba,São Paulo, Brasil |
| Area | 1,390,000 m2 (139 ha; 343 acres) |
| Plants | 1 |
| Employees | 2,486 |
| Annual capacity | 180,000 vehicles[28] |
In November 2008, Hyundai opened the European plant inNošovice, Czech Republic, following an investment of over 1 billion euros and over two years of construction.[29][30] The plant, which mainly manufactures thei30 andTucson for the European market, has an annual capacity of 300,000 cars.[31] It previously also built theix20 mini MPV. The new Hyundai plant is 90 kilometres north of KiaŽilina Plant in Slovakia. It began manufacturing Kona Electric since March 2020 at the same production line with i30 and Tucson.[32] In 2022, HMMC made transition into eco-friendly factory according to the carbon-neutral plan and is being operated by electric power generated from renewable energy.[33]
| Established | 2007 |
| Location | Nošovice,Moravian-Silesian, Czech Republic |
| Area | 2,000,000 m2 (200 ha; 494 acres) |
| Plants | 1 |
| Employees | 3,248 |
| Annual capacity | 350,000 vehicles[24] 530,000 engines |
Opened in September 1997, Hyundai Assan Otomotiv (HAOS) is a joint venture between the Hyundai Motor Company of South Korea and the Kibar Holding of Turkey.[34] It is located inKozyatagi,Istanbul,Turkey.[35] It serves as the production base of small Hyundai models for the European market. Throughout its operations, the plant has also produced theAccent,Matrix,Grace andStarex. It is the first overseas plant owned by Hyundai Motor Company.
| Established | 1997 |
| Location | İzmit,Kocaeli Province, Turkey |
| Area | 691,500 m2 (69 ha; 171 acres) |
| Plants | 1 |
| Employees | 2,467 |
| Annual capacity | 230,000 vehicles[36] |
Formed in May 1996, Hyundai Motor India Limited (HMIL) started its operations producing its first model in September 1998, theSantro. HMIL is the global export hub for compact cars for emerging markets. HMIL has two manufacturing plants inIrungattukottai andSriperumbudur inTamil Nadu, both near the city ofChennai. In 2021, the cumulative production exceeded 10 million units. In 2019, additional electric vehicle production lines were established to start assembly production (CKD) of Kona Electric, and partial assembly production (SKD) of Ioniq 5 was decided in August 2022.
| Established | 1998 |
| Location | Irungattukottai,Tamil Nadu, India |
| Sriperumbudur, Tamil Nadu, India | |
| Area | 2,140,000 m2 (214 ha; 529 acres) |
| Plants | 2 |
| Employees | 10,000 |
| Annual capacity | 680,000 vehicles 850,000 engines |
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Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Indonesia (HMMI) is built inCikarang,Bekasi,West Java in 2019 and fully operated in January 2022 with the annual capacity of 150,000 vehicles, upgradable to 250,000.[37] Half of the output is exported to the neighbouring countries inSoutheast Asia.[38] A total of US$1.55 billion (Rp 21.7 trillion) would be invested to the plant along with the future product developments until 2030.[39] HMMI produces theHyundai Creta, the electric-vehicleHyundai Ioniq 5, andStargazercompact MPV in this plant among other models, including theHyundai Santa Fe andHyundai Kona Electric.
| Established | 2021 |
| Location | Bekasi,West Java, Indonesia |
| Area | 776,000 m2 (78 ha; 192 acres) |
| Plants | 1 |
| Employees | 3,720[40] |
| Annual capacity | 150,000 vehicles[41] |
The Hyundai Motor Group Innovation Center in Singapore (HMGICS) is built inJurong and produces theHyundai Ioniq 5 since 2023. Hyundai plans to produce 30,000 battery electric models a year at the plant, of which about 6,000 will be sold in Singapore.[43][44]
| Established | 2022 |
| Location | Jurong, Singapore |
| Area | |
| Plants | 1 |
| Employees | |
| Annual capacity | 30,000 vehicles[43] |
In October 2024,Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant America began production in their new facility, off of I-16 in Ellabell, Bryan County. With over 1,400+ employees, a public opening is expected in early 2025.[46]
| Production started | October 2024 |
| Location | Bryan County, Georgia, United States |
| Area | 1,500,000 m2 (150 ha; 371 acres) |
| Plant(s) | 1 |
| Employees | 1,400+[46] |
| Annual capacity | 300,000 vehicles[47] |
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Beijing Hyundai Motor Company (BHMC) is a 50-50 joint venture between Hyundai Motor and Beijing Automotive Holdings, which was established in 2002. It began operations in China by producing Sonata in December 2002.[6] It operates inShunyi District, a satellite city of Beijing, producing Hyundai-branded automobiles for the Chinese market.[50]
Hyundai planned to transform its Chongqing Plant 5 in China into an electric vehicle plant in a bid to reinvigorate its slumping Chinese business, as the plant suffered a low operation rate as it was completed when China’s retaliation against South Korea peaked in 2017.[51] However, the company ended up putting the plant on sale as of August 2023.[52]
| Established | 2002 |
| Location | Shunyi District,Beijing, China (Plant 1, 2, 3) |
| Cangzhou,Hebei, China (Plant 4) | |
| Liangjiang,Chongqing, China (Plant 5) | |
| Area | 5,190,000 m2 (519 ha; 1,282 acres) |
| Plants | 5 |
| Employees | 15,768 |
| Annual capacity | 1,250,000 vehicles[53] |
Located in Gian Khau Industrial Park,Ninh Bình province, the factory is a joint venture between Hyundai Motor Company and Thanh Cong Manufacturing. Hyundai began exporting its cars in complete knock down (CKD) format to Vietnam in 2011. In 2017, these two companies established Hyundai Thanh Cong Manufacturing Vietnam (HTMV) to produce complete cars with a minimum localization rate of 40 percent.[54]
| Established | 2011 |
| Location | Gia Viễn,Ninh Bình, Vietnam |
| Area | N/A |
| Plants | 2 |
| Employees | 3,400 |
| Annual capacity | 170,000 vehicles[55] |
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Hyundai vehicles have also been produced in Brazil byGrupo Caoa at a plant located inAnápolis,Goiás. Production here started with theHR model in 2007, and continued with theTucson in 2010, the HD78 truck in 2011, and theix35 in 2013.[57]
Hyundai Asia Resources, Inc. (HARI) was the assembler and distributor of Hyundai passenger cars and commercial vehicles in the Philippines. The company were appointed in August 2001 as the official distributor of Hyundai vehicles in the Philippines. Locally assembled Hyundai models consist of theHyundai Accent Sedan,Hyundai H350 and theHyundai H100 vans, all undergo final assembly at Hyundai's Assembly Center (HAC), located atSanta Rosa, Laguna.
PT Hyundai Indonesia Motor (HIM) was established in 1996 as PT Citra Mobil Nasional,[58] assembling Bimantara-badged vehicles based on theHyundai Accent andHyundai Elantra.[59] It assembles theHyundai H-1/Starex since 2010 for domestic market and exports to Thailand, Bhutan, and Brunei.[60] It is renamed to PT Handal Indonesia Motor since November 2020, offering vehicle assembly services to other brands as well.[61]
The Fair Technology Hyundai is a joint venture between Hyundai Motor and Fair Technology, which was established in January 2023. It began operations in Bangladesh by producing the Creta since January 2023. It operates in Bangabandhu Hi-Tech Park,Kaliakair Gazipur.[6]
Hyundai cars are also assembled inEgypt usingCKD kits. The local manufacturer isGB Corp, which is located inCairo. Their 58,000 sq.m factory possesses an estimated annual production capacity of 50,000 to 75,000 vehicles. Formerly, the company assembled vehicles such as theVerna andHyundai Elantra HD. As of 2024, the company assembles theHyundai Elantra AD, and theHyundai Accent RB for the Hyundai marque.
Hyundai Bromont Plant (1989~1993)
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Located inSaint Petersburg, Hyundai started the construction of the Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Rus (HMMR) plant with a planned yearly capacity of 100,000 cars in June 2008,[63] that will eventually be increased to 200,000 units.[64] It started mass production in January 2011.[64]
In December 2020, Hyundai completed the acquisition of a decommissionedGeneral Motors manufacturing plant inShushary, Saint Petersburg, making it the second plant for HMMR.[65][66]
Following theRussian invasion of Ukraine, production at the Saint Petersburg plant was halted in March 2022.[67] In September 2023, Hyundai sold the Saint Petersburg factory to AGR Automotive, a subsidiary of Russian company Art-Finans. Assembly operations restarted in mid-2024 under the new ownership, using unassembled kits enough to produce around 70,000 vehicles.[68][69]
| Established | 2010 |
| Location | Saint Petersburg, Russia |
| Area | 2,000,000 m2 (200 ha; 494 acres) |
| Plants | 2 |
| Employees | 2,245 |
| Annual capacity | 200,000 vehicles (4% of global output)[36] |
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