Toyota Manufacturing UK
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A factory at Burnaston, Derbyshire assembles cars. The first car produced was a Carina on 16 December 1992. Since then production has included Avensis, Corolla and Auris models. An engine factory is located on Deeside, North Wales.
The processes at Burnaston include stamping (pressing panels from rolls of steel), welding, painting, plastic mouldings (bumpers and instrument panels/dashboards) and assembly and at Deeside machining, assembly and aluminium casting.[1]
On 26 February 2007, Chancellor Gordon Brown visited the Burnaston facility to celebrate the official launch of the Auris in the UK and TMUK used the occasion to announce an investment of GBP 100 million in its Deeside factory to build a petrol engine for the Auris.[2] Initial reporting on the engine called it a hybrid and it is expected to be used as part of a Hybrid Synergy Drive system.
At its fastest speed, a car can come off the end of the production line approximately every 70 seconds.
Toyota at burnaston has approximately 4000 employees on site at any one time.
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- ^ Toyota Manufacturing UK. The Facts. Retrieved on 2007-03-10.
- ^ BBC. Toyota £100m safeguards 200 jobs. Retrieved on 2007-02-26.
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