Posted on 15 Feb 2016
Toyota Motor Corp resumed production at its vehicle assembly plants in Japan on Monday following a one-week stoppage after an explosion at an affiliate's steel plant resulted in a steel shortage.
The world's biggest-selling automaker on Monday confirmed that its four directly owned, domestic assembly plants had come back online after production had been suspended on Feb. 8-13, following a blast at an Aichi Steel Corp plant in January.
Production at all other Toyota plants affected by the shortage had also resumed, the company said.
Toyota produced around 13,600 vehicles a day in Japan in December, up 10 percent from a year earlier, due in part to the start of production of the latest Prius petrol hybrid.
