Toyota suspends production lines in two additional plants

Toyota Motor has announced more suspensions of production lines in Japan, due to pandemic-induced shortages of components.

Toyota said the Tahara plant in Aichi Prefecture and the Miyata plant in Fukuoka Prefecture would partially suspend production lines for three days from December 20.

The two plants are already currently suspending part of their output of Lexus luxury cars, due to the stalled delivery of components from Southeast Asia. The current suspensions last until Wednesday.

The automaker said domestic bottlenecks had worsened the shortages. It added that next week’s suspensions would halt the production of about 5,000 vehicles.

Toyota is working to restore output to pre-pandemic levels. But the assembly line stoppages are due to impact the production of 14,000 units this month.