Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada
Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada Inc. (TMMC) is a Canada-based automotive manufacturer and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Toyota Motor Corporation. TMMC currently operates a plant in Cambridge, Ontario, and another in . The current President of TMMC is Fred Volf
Since 1988, Canadian workers have been making Toyota vehicles. In the first year TMMC opened, 153 vehicles were built. Currently, the three plants that make up TMMC have the ability to build over 500,000 vehicles annually. That puts Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada in the top 5 global Toyota manufacturing plants. TMMC has been recognized with a total of 14 Plant Quality awards, which is more than any other automotive manufacturer in the Americas. These include 2 Platinum and 7 Gold awards.
TMMC isn’t just one plant; operations include three different plants — North, West and South. Each builds a different vehicle. What they all have in common is an approach to manufacturing known as the Toyota Production System or TPS, which has changed how automobile manufacturers around the world produce vehicles.
The Cambridge plant opened in 1988, and has been expanded twice since. This was Toyota's second car-assembly plant in North America, after the plant in Georgetown, Kentucky, opened in 1987, and the first Toyota assembly plant in Canada. The Cambridge plant in its current configuration covers 3,000,000 square feet (280,000 m2) in space on 1.62 square kilometres (400 acres) and the Woodstock plant covers 1,800,000 square feet (170,000 m2) in space on 4.05 square kilometres (1,000 acres). TMMC employs over 8,000 Team Members. TMMC has fourteen (14) J.D. Power and Associates plant quality awards, including the prestigious global Platinum Plant Quality Award in both 2011 and 2014 - at the time it was the only Toyota plant outside Japan to ever win this award. TMMC was also recognized by the JD Power VDS as having the #1, 3, and 4 best assembly lines in all of North America
TMMC is the first plant outside Japan to produce a Lexus brand vehicle. It is also the first Toyota plant in North America and the only automotive manufacturer in Canada to assemble both advanced technology hybrid (Lexus RX 450h) and electric (Toyota RAV4 EV) vehicles.
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