Production
Production Plant Overview
Production of Toyota vehicles began at the Kariya Assembly Plant when Toyota Motor Co., Ltd. was established, and the following year at the Koromo Plant (now the Honsha Plant) when it commenced operations in 1938.
In 1959, production began at the Motomachi Plant in Japan and overseas in Brazil. Since then, as motorization advanced in Japan and overseas markets grew, production plants in Japan have been expanded while overseas, semi knockdown (SKD) and complete knockdown (CKD) sites were augmented. In the late 1980s, globalization progressed rapidly and the number of overseas production sites surged.
Number of Japanese and Overseas Production Plants and Production Volumes
|
Japan or overseas
|
Company category
|
No. of companies/ No. of plants
|
Year of
establishment |
20th
anniversary |
30th
anniversary |
40th
anniversary |
50th
anniversary |
75th
anniversary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
1937
|
1957
|
1967
|
1977
|
1987
|
2012
|
|||
|
Japan
|
Toyota
|
No. of plants
|
1
|
1
|
4
|
8
|
11
|
12
|
|
Affiliates (Toyota wholly
-owned subsidiaries) |
No. of companies
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
4
|
|
|
No. of plants & sites
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
13
|
||
|
Affiliates (other vehicle assembly cos.)
|
No. of companies
|
-
|
5
|
6
|
6
|
7
|
3
|
|
|
No. of plants & sites
|
-
|
5
|
6
|
10
|
9
|
6
|
||
|
Overseas
|
No. of companies
|
-
|
-
|
10
|
18
|
18
|
50
|
|
|
No. of plants & sites
|
-
|
-
|
10
|
18
|
18
|
60
|
||
|
Worldwide production (vehicles)
|
4,013
|
79,527
|
832,130
|
2,720,758
|
3,830,539
|
6,928,813
|
||
- Note 1:
- A dash indicates zero.
- Note 2:
- Toyota's plants in Japan include CBU vehicle production plants and unit and parts production plants. Affiliated company plants include CBU vehicle production plants.
- Note 3:
- With respect to overseas production sites, individual companies occasionally have multiple plants, leading to a discrepancy in the number of companies and production sites. For example, Kuozui Motors in Taiwan has two plants, which is counted as (1) company and (2) plants.
- Note 4:
- Figures shown are current as of the time of respective company history publications (excluding the "year of establishment" and the "global production volume" for 2012, which is from the actual 2011 results).
