Toyota suspends output on 14 lines at 9 Japan plants after earthquake

TOKYO – Toyota Motor Corp. reported it will suspend output at nine crops in Japan for quite a few days this 7 days mainly because of offer disruptions from a weekend earthquake that rattled the country’s northeast.

The world’s greatest automaker reported the interruption is induced by suppliers affected by the Saturday evening quake. Toyota reported it would not disclose which components are affected or the suppliers.

But the components are not semiconductors, spokeswoman Shiori Hashimoto reported. That disclosure comes even with the reality that the world wide industry is experiencing a scarcity of automotive microchips and the reality that a crucial semiconductor plant in Japan has lowered output due to the quake.

Toyota also declined to say how a lot of models of output would be lost. The suspensions start out as early as Feb. 17 at some crops and run by means of Saturday, February 20, at all the affected strains. Toyota is however looking at when to resume operation soon after that.
Toyota reported the offer chain issues were being not predicted to influence abroad output.

The downtime hits 14 of the carmaker’s 28 strains in Japan and this sort of nameplates as the Toyota RAV4, C-HR and Harrier crossovers, and quite a few Lexus products. Afflicted Lexus automobiles consist of the LS and IS sedans, the RC and LC coupes, as effectively as the LX, NX, UX and RX crossovers and SUVs.

Renesas Electronics, a crucial provider of automotive semiconductors, reported on Monday that it restarted wafer output at a facility that was shut down for security checks soon after the quake. But it reported the plant will not ramp up to entire pre-earthquake output right until subsequent 7 days.

The seven.3 magnitude temblor struck off Japan’s northeast coast in close proximity to the epicenter of the devastating Tohoku earthquake that strike ten yrs before, killing much more than sixteen,000. That quake induced a massive tsunami and meltdowns at the Fukushima nuclear electrical power plant. The hottest quake wounded some one hundred sixty individuals and induced blackouts to virtually one million homes.