Toyota to Begin Producing New Corolla in Tianjin FAW Toyota's Plant No. 3.Tokyo, Japan, May 28, 2007 - (JCN JCN Japan Corporate News JCN Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience JCN Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing JCN Journal of Christian Nursing JCN Job Control Number JCN Journal of Child Neurology JCN joint communications network (US DoD) Newswire) - Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC TMC Technology Marketing Corporation (Norwalk, Connecticut) TMC Texas Medical Center (Houston, TX) TMC Traffic Message Channel TMC The Movie Channel TMC Traffic Management Center ) announced that Tianjin FAW FAW Florida Administrative Weekly FAW Football Association of Wales FAW Forschungsinstitut für Anwendungsorientierte Wissensverarbeitung FAW First Auto Works (China) FAW First Aid at Work FAW Fleet Air Wing FAW Fire At Will Toyota Motor Co., Ltd. (TFTM TFTM Transformers: the Movie TFTM Thanks For The Memories TFTM Too Far To Measure ), a joint venture established by TMC and China FAW Group Corporation (FAW) for the production of passenger vehicles, started production of the new Corolla corolla: see petal. today at TFTM's Plant No. 3, in the Tianjin Economic and Technological Development Zone in Tianjin, China. Approximately 630 people attended a line-off ceremony held today at the plant, including FAW President Zhu Yanfeng, TMC President Katsuaki Watanabe, TFTM President Shozo Takemoto and Deputy President Han Xinliang, Tianjin City officials, Japanese government officials and representatives of suppliers and dealers. At the ceremony, Watanabe said, "The TFTM Plant No. 3 reflects the steady development of the joint venture between FAW and TMC. Furthermore, the new Corolla represents a new level of product appeal, and I hope that it will be well received by Chinese customers." TFTM Plant No. 3 has an annual production capacity of 200,000 vehicles and has been equipped with numerous cutting-edge facilities, such as a paint shop that utilizes water-based paints and a welding process that adopts the Global New Body Line (GBL GBL Gamma-Butyrolactone GBL government bill of lading (US DoD) GBL Ground-Based Laser GBL Game Boy Light GBL General Bearing Line GBL Generation Breakdown List GBL Ground-Based Laboratory GBL Green Bus Lines, Inc. ) system. High quality manufacturing at the plant is thus combined with environmental consideration. Approximately 3.6 billion Chinese yuan was invested in constructing the plant, which has created close to 1,700 new jobs. The new Corolla produced there will be sold by roughly 260 TFTM dealers throughout China. TFTM began production of the VIOS VIOS Virtual Input Output Server compact sedan in October 2002 at Plant No. 1 and has followed this with the Corolla, Crown and REIZ, for a total of four production models. Now, with the start of production of the new Corolla-the fifth production model-Plant No. 3, TFTM's total production capacity has increased to 420,000 vehicles a year. For more information, please visit at http://www.toyota.co.jp/en/news/07/0528.html About Toyota Motor Corporation Toyota Motor Corporation (TSE See Tokyo Stock Exchange. TSE 1. See Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE). 2. See Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE). : 7203; NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : TM), established in 1937, is one of the world's representative automobile manufacturers, producing vehicles in 26 countries and regions and marketing vehicles in more than 170 countries and regions. In fiscal 2006, Toyota provided nearly eight million vehicles on a consolidated basis to customers around the world under the Toyota, Lexus, Daihatsu and Hino brands. Toyota had more than 280,000 employees at the end of fiscal 2006. The company is headquartered in Aichi, Japan. For more information, please visit www.toyota.co.jp/en/index.html. Source: Toyota Motor Corporation Contact: Toyota Motor Corporation Corporate Communications Department Public Affairs Division Tel: +81-3-3817-9150 URL: http://www.toyota.co.jp/en/ Japan Corporate News Network. All rights reserved. |
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