Toyota Resumes production at all completed vehicle factories in China Production system is reduced by half February 24 11:41
On April 24, Toyota Motor resumed operations at its plant in Chengdu, China, which had stopped operations following the spread of the new coronavirus. This means that Toyota has resumed production at all finished vehicle factories in China for the first time in about a month, but the production system at many factories is only about half of the level before the outage.
Toyota produces finished vehicles in joint ventures with local manufacturers in four Chinese cities.
However, due to the spread of the new coronavirus, the planned restart of operations at the beginning of this month after the New Year's Day was delayed, with the Guangzhou and Changchun factories restarting production on March 17 and the Tianjin factory on March 18, respectively Meanwhile, the Chengdu factory was shut down.
Toyota has been aimed at the resumption of operations from this week about the Chengdu plant, but from such as that with the prospect of procurement of secure and parts of the employee, is that it has resumed operations from 24 days.
This means that Toyota has resumed production at all finished car plants in China for the first time in about a month.
However, the production system at many factories is only about half of the time before the suspension, and there is no prospect for full operation, and there is concern about the impact on production and sales in the world's largest automobile market, China .