The car manufacturer Toyota is gradually resuming production at several factories in Japan after being halted due to a Explosion in a supplier’s production hall had to be interrupted for about a week. This is reported by the Bloomberg news agency. The explosion struck six of Toyota’s 14 factories Japan the production lines shut down.
Normality promised from Thursday
Toyota is now working on restoring production, the world’s largest automobile manufacturer said. The company has now put two affected production lines back into operation. Three more production lines in two plants are scheduled to resume operations from Tuesday morning, followed by four lines in three plants in the evening. The last remaining production line will be back in operation on Thursday morning, Toyota said.
The supplier Chuo Spring in Aichi was affected, in whose halls there was an explosion on October 16th. The company produces shock absorbers and coil springs for a number of Japanese automobile manufacturers. As a result of the accident, Toyota had to partially reduce production because the relevant parts could no longer be obtained in sufficient quantities.
The leading Japanese car manufacturer had in the first quarter of the current financial year a record profit retracted. The group sold 2.3 million vehicles worldwide in the first three months, almost 16 percent more than a year earlier.