Toyota Kirloskar Motor Resume Operations in Lockdown
Bengaluru, May 5, 2020: Toyota Kirloskar Motor Pvt Ltd is a subsidiary of Toyota Motor Corporation of Japan with Kirloskar Group, for the manufacture and sales of Toyota cars in India. It is currently the fourth largest car maker in India after Maruti Suzuki, Hyundai, and Mahindra.
Naveen Soni, Senior Vice President, Sales & Services, Toyota Kirloskar Motor, said, “We thank the Government for the permission granted to the Industries in Rural areas to start operations. As a responsible corporate, TKM places highest priority to the safety and well-being of our employees and other stakeholders and will continue working in concurrence with the State and Central Government’s directives. TKM intends to restart operations at the earliest. With the inputs from various stake holders, including the Government agencies, we have released a detailed “Restart Manual” in this regard.
The challenge that lies ahead of us is the fact that for the auto sector to start production, it is necessary that our entire value chain starts operating. Our value chain consists not only of our suppliers but our dealers as well who are based in different parts of the country including cities that are still under severe lockdown.
However, basis the latest directive issued by the government, TKM has decided to initiate restart of some preparatory operations at the plant beginning 5th May, 2020. These preparatory operations are conducted to provide our workforce with an adequately safe environment to work in, duly prioritizing domains like spare parts supply as that is an important requirement from the markets where certain customer service activity has already started. Furthermore, we have developed certain crucial changes in guidelines for enhanced safe operations in all areas of work which would mean that the first few days will be spent on training our members on the new guidelines as well as ensuring safe materials and working environment. Hence, operations at our plant will resume in a phased manner, most importantly keeping in mind the needs of ‘social distancing’ and sanitization.”
Overview of TKM
| Company name | Toyota Kirloskar Motor Private Limited |
| Equity participation | TMC: 89%, Kirloskar Systems Limited (Mr. Vikram S. Kirloskar): 11% |
| Number of employees | Approx. 6,500 |
| Land area | Approx. 432 acres (approx. 1,700,000 m2 ) |
| Building area | 74,000 m2 |
| Total Installed Production capacity | Upto 3,10,000 units |
Overview of TKM 1st Plant
| Established | October 1997 (start of production: December 1999) |
| Location | Bidadi |
| Products | Innova, Fortuner manufactured in India. Vellfire imported as CBUs. |
| Installed Production capacity | Upto 1,00,000 units |
Overview of TKM 2nd Plant
| Start of Production | December 2010 |
| Location | On the site of Toyota Kirloskar Motor Private Limited, Bidadi |
| Products | Toyota Yaris, Camry Hybrid |
| Installed Production capacity | Upto 2,10,000 units |
