Toyota supplier breaks ground on new Ontario plant

Toyota Boshoku Corporation (Novi, Mich.), a subsidiary of Toyota Boshoku Corporation (Kariya-shi, Aichi, Japan), has broken ground on a new automotive interior components manufacturing plant in Woodstock, Ontario. The $58 million plant will supply seats, door trim and carpet for 150,000 vehicles a year that will be assembled at Toyota Motor Corporation’s assembly plant also being constructed in Woodstock. The 269,000-square-foot plant will be located on a 35-acre parcel of land near the Toyota plant. McKay-Cocker Construction (London, Ontario), the design-build contractor, broke ground on the plant in October 2006. The plant is expected to come online in the spring 2008, a few months before the Toyota assembly plant comes online.

Toyoda Boshoku was created in 1918 at Toyoda Automatic Loom Works as a textile spinning company. The company went through many changes over the years, especially throughout the World War II. After managing to survive, the company began to diversify its products and manufacturing fabric for car seats for Toyota Motor. The company continued to diversify its products with the production of filters, ignition coils and other non-fabric automotive components and has grown with its parent company Toyota Motor Corporation.

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