Toyota Motor Corp. will continue to shut down its Thai plant, which was shut down due to a shortage of parts, which is thought to be the effect of the spread of the new coronavirus infection, after the 29th.
The spread of infection in Southeast Asia is spreading the impact on Japanese companies.
Toyota Motor's Thai plant is the main plant in Southeast Asia, which can produce about 750,000 units a year in total at three locations, but parts procurement has been delayed and operations have been suspended one after another since August 20th.
Toyota was wondering if it would be possible to resume production on the 29th of the local holiday, as it was suspected that employees of the supplier company were infected with the new coronavirus.
However, due to a shortage of parts and production could not be resumed, it was decided to continue the suspension after the 29th.
The timing of resumption will be considered in the future.
In Thailand, the spread of the delta strain of the mutant virus confirmed in India has not stopped the spread of the infection, and the number of infected people on the 28th exceeded 16,000, the highest number ever in a day. It has become.
In Southeast Asia, due to the spread of infections in Indonesia and Vietnam, Toyota and Honda have been forced to suspend some production lines in Japan, and Japanese companies with supply chains in this region. The impact on production is widespread.