Steel Shortage Forces Toyota To Halt Production

  • Wednesday, 03 February 2016 01:47

Toyota released a press statement detailing their plans to temporarily halt auto production due to an explosion at an Aichi manufacturing plant.

An explosion that occurred at an Aichi plant on January 8 has compromised the facilities ability to roll out the assembly line as efficiently, leading to parts shortages. Toyota has therefore decided to impose a factory shutdown from February 8-13.

Toyota is expected to request alternate production lines or source steel from other suppliers. Despite the shutdown only affecting plants in Toyota, the majority of global production is currently concentrated in Japan.

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