Toyota North America Continues to Cut Down on Thai Plants Due to Flooding

Comprehensive foreign reports said that due to the shortage of parts and components caused by the flooding in Thailand, Toyota Thailand will extend its downtime, while North American factories will continue to reduce overtime output, and will suspend work for one day next Saturday.

On November 2nd, Toyota Motor North America officially announced that the flood caused the disruption of the parts supply chain in Thailand. In order to ensure spare parts inventory, all North American factories will cancel overtime hours next week (November 7-11), originally scheduled The 12th Saturday overtime was completely suspended. Previously, Toyota had stated that the North American factory operating rate will be reduced to 50% during the period from November 2-10, and it plans to stop working on the 11th day.

In addition, according to Japan's "Kyoto News" reported on November 3, although Toyota has tried to find other parts supply, but because of the flooding is obvious, Toyota's three factories in Thailand will continue to extend the shutdown.

At present, most employees of Toyota Thailand are able to contact the reporting company and prepare to resume production. They plan to seek alternative sources of spare parts. Toyota is currently preparing to resume production this month.