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New factory facilities and expansion for TCM Fork trucks
5 February 2008
A new electric fork truck assembly line is to open in early 2008 as part of an expansion of TCM’s Shiga Production Plant in Japan. The factory will produce 22,800 trucks for domestic and export markets in 2008 with production rising to over 25,000 trucks in 2010.
Earlier in 2007 the plant opened a new drive-unit factory on the Shiga site. The factory will produce over 30,000 drive-units in 2008.
The Shiga factory is in the centre of Japan in the Kansai region, covers 228,000m2 and is ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 quality assured.
Shiga is one of four factories in Japan producing trucks for the export and domestic markets. In addition TCM has a factory in the US producing 5,000 trucks a year and a foundry in China.
The Shiga plant has grown from its beginning as a site for the production of forklift trucks to a diversified facility for the manufacture of material handling equipment ranging from a full range of forklift trucks to high-tech machines such as AGV.
The plant holds a reputation as an environmentally aware works and was placed in the top 20 works out of more than sixteen hundred factories worldwide under a TPM (Total Productive Maintenance) program in 2002.
