On April 15, 2020, Toyota Motor announced that it would gradually adjust the production and operation of all Japanese car factories from May 1 5 due to the COVID-19 epidemic and the declining global demand for new cars.
Toyota said that its factories in Japan will stop production on May 1 and May 1 1. In addition, from May 12, Toyota will also reduce the production days of some factories and production lines facing overseas markets and reduce the frequency of some factories.
This adjustment will reduce the output of Toyota's Japanese factory by 40% to 79,000 vehicles, mainly sold to the United States and the Middle East.
According to the announcement, from May of 12, nine production lines of * * * five factories stopped production, which lasted for the longest time until May of 18. These include Tahara Factory (located in Tahara City, Aichi Prefecture), Dike Factory (located in Toyota City, Aichi Prefecture) and Iwate Factory (located in Kanazaki-CHO, Iwate Prefecture).
In addition, the four production lines of the three factories will reduce the production shifts from May to June, from the conventional two-shift system to the single-shift system.
In addition, Toyota also decided to stop the production of some production lines in two local factories from April 20 to 22.
At the same time, with the gradual control of the epidemic in Europe, Toyota recently announced that it will restart the production and operation of TMMF and TMMP plants from April 22nd. In order to ensure the health and safety of employees, the relevant factories will adopt single-shift system in the early stage.
It is worth mentioning that Toyota's French factory is the production base in yaris, while Toyota's Polish factory produces related engines and transmissions.
Since March 30th, all Toyota factories in China have resumed normal operation.
Toyota's factories in South Africa, South America and Southeast Asia are still in a state of suspension. Among them, the South African factory, the Thai factory and the Philippine factory were delayed until April 30; The Venezuelan factory was postponed until May 29 to resume production; The shutdown date of the Brazilian factory will last at least until June 22nd.
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