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October 20, 2011
Hino Motors holds the groundbreaking ceremony for the Koga Plant
Hino Motors, Ltd. (Hino) held the groundbreaking ceremony for the new plant (Koga Plant) to be built in Koga City, Ibaraki Prefecture, on October 17, 2011. The ceremony to pray for the safety of the construction work was attended by the Governor of Ibaraki Masaru Hashimoto, the Mayor of Koga Nakahisa Hakuto, among others, as well as Hino’s Chairman Kazuo Okamoto and President Yoshio Shirai.
Hino will first start the construction of a factory producing KD parts to be assembled at overseas plants, and launch its operation in spring in 2012. Since the Hino Plant adjacent to the head office cannot be expanded anymore, Hino plans to gradually expand the new plant to start the production of units and key components, and eventually shift to the Koga Plant the assembly of heavy- and medium-duty trucks, which is currently conducted at the Hino Plant, over the period till 2020.
The new plant, whose plan was announced in January this year, will play an important role in supporting Hino in terms of production and supply, which aims to grow further mainly in global markets and achieve worldwide sales of 230,000 units in the middle of the 2010s.
At the new plant, Hino will create the line to manufacture a wide variety of products in small quantities more efficiently than before. Additionally, Hino will fully take advantage of technologies and skills of craftsmanship, which is one of Japan’s strengths, and aim to eventually create an optimum global system for production and supply in cooperation with overseas production bases. The new plant will also serve as the mother factory that will transmit technologies and skills to other plants of Hino Motors across the world.
While increasing its production-supply system efficiency in Japan, Hino will promote the construction of regional core production bases first in other parts of Asia, namely Thailand and Indonesia, to boost outputs overseas to eventually optimize the global production system.
Outline of new plant
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Name of plant
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Koga Plant
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Location
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Nasaki, Koga, Ibaraki
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Site area
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Approx. 660 sq. meters
(KD plant building: approx. 260 sq. meters)
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Start of Operation
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Spring, 2012 (KD plant)
Gradually to expand functions to start truck assembly by 2020
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Product
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Heavy and medium trucks, Units and key components, KD parts
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Investment
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Approx. 50 bil. yen (Approx. 3 bil. yen for KD plant)
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Ref.
Outlines of Hino Plants
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Name of plant
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Hino Plant
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Hamura Plant
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Nitta Plant
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Location
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Hino, Tokyo
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Hamura, Tokyo
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Ota, Gunma
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Site area
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Approx. 300 sq. meters
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Approx. 77 sq. meters
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Approx. 39 sq. meters
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Start of Operation
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1942
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1963
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1980
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Product
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Heavy & medium duty trucks, Engines
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Light duty trucks, Axle for heavy duty trucks, Toyota brand trucks and SUVs
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Medium & light duty trucks, transmission of heavy & medium duty trucks, Axle for medium & light duty trucks
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Hino brand vehicles production in FY2010*
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Approx. 62,000 units
(CBU and KD parts)
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Approx. 31,000 units
(CBU and KD parts)
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-
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Employees**
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Approx. 2,300
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Approx. 4,300
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Approx. 2,000
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* FY2010: Financial year ending March 31, 2011
** As of March 2011