Honda breaks ground in Swepsonville for Honda Power Equipment Mfg. (HPE), a 60,000 square-foot plant and the first Honda company unit out of Japan to manufacture power equipment.

Production of the first lawnmowers to be manufacturing in the United States begins on August 6, at Honda Power Equipment, Mfg., in Alamance County, N.C.

NCM started production of the GXV140 engines.
