Had Disrupted Explosion, Toyota Confirms Thursday Factory Operations Restarted

Motomachi Factory in Japan. (Doc. Global Toyota)

Toyota confirmed that it will resume operations of their plant on Thursday, October 26 after experiencing serious disruption due to an explosion at the supplier plant. Based on a report from Reuters on Monday, October 23, the Japanese car company will gradually restart their factory operations for the rest of production lines affected by last week's incident.

A statement from a company spokesman stated that Toyota is committed to reviving production in all factories affected by the crash at the Chuo Spring plant on Thursday. Previously, the lack of springs in suspensions and other auto components arising from explosions in suppliers had disrupted production at four Toyota factories.

The incident at the Chuo Spring factory in Toyota City, Aichi Prefecture, Japan, resulted in a shortage of parts, particularly for models such as the RAV4 and Land Cruiser, which caused production to stall in most of the 14 Toyota assembly plants in Japan. However, eight production lines in six factories remain closed.

This incident is the latest problem faced by Toyota in recent years, having previously experienced similar disruptions to the spare parts ordering system in August. At that time, they managed to restart factory operations in just one day after facing constraints.