Automaker Toyota has announced it will start working in three shifts, around the clock, starting next year, thus increasing its production capacity. 167,000 to 182,000 vehicles annually.
This was reported by the head of the local branch of the Japanese company, Gustavo Salinasand Toyota’s CEO for Latin America and the Caribbean, Masahiro Inoue to the minister Sergio Massathis Friday at the Palacio de Hacienda.
The project involves an investment of 60 million dollars and the transition to the plant 2,000 operators who had already been entered since May to work in rotational shifts. Following an agreement with the Mechanics Union (SMATA), the now 8,200 workers of Toyota will work on a scheme from Monday to Friday.
It is one of the unions that integrates the wage level better paid of local industry. According to industry sources, an operator enters with a gross salary (not out of pocket) and not counting overtime 200,000 pesos a month.
The automaker aims to close this year with a production of 167,000 Hilux and SW4 pickups, 80% of which exports to 21 countries in the region.
It is the country’s number one automaker by production and export. It is followed by number of units by the automaker stellantiswhich has two factories (Peugeot-Citroen in El Palomar e Fiat in Ferreyra) with about 150,000 units between two
With the new production scheme planned for next year, as announced by Salinas and Inohue in Massa, Toyota could exceed 4,000 million dollars in exports.
This expansion will also have an impact within the value chain, with additional purchases from suppliers for approx $100 million a year. Some of these suppliers, in turn, will incorporate a third shift into their working patterns.
Throughout the year, despite numerous external supply problems (logistic and again from chips) as internal (missing tyres and of Dollars to import auto parts and supplies), automotive terminals They will complete a production run of over 500,000 units.
However, very few work at the limit of their productive capacity, as is the case with Toyota. It is estimated that the installed capacity exceeds one million units per year.
In Argentina there are 10 vehicle factories in business: in addition to the Japanese car manufacturer, Fiat and Peugeot-Citroën, there are Iveco, Renault, Nissan, General Motors, Ford, Volkswagen and Mercedes Benzwhich are grouped into Automotive Manufacturers Association (ADEFA). Partners of this entity are also two car manufacturers, Scania (gears) e Sling (motorcycles), which today do not produce vehicles but keep their plants active.
Mercedes Benz has its industrial center in Virrey del Pino, in La Matanza, divided into two factories, some of Sprinter utilities and another for their trucks and buses. Volkswagen announced this week that it will also begin production of heavy-duty vehicles at its plant volkswagen cordovatoday dedicated to the production of gearboxes and also to the assembly of a high-end motorcycle model Ducati.
With this new scheme, from 2023 there will be 12 multinational vehicle factories to which is added Agrale, a family business with Brazilian capital that mainly produces buses and also light trucks in the small town of Mercedes in Buenos Aires.
Source: Clarin
