Established in 1989, Toyota Motor Manufacturing (UK) Ltd is the British

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subsidiary of

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. The main factory is at

Burnaston Burnaston is a village and civil parish in the South Derbyshire district of Derbyshire, England. It is about southwest of the city of Derby and has a population of 1,531. It contains the headquarters and vehicle manufacturing plant of Toyota ...

in Derbyshire, with an engine factory located in

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, North Wales. Construction of the Burnaston factory began in March 1990 after the demolition of Burnaston House, and took almost three years to complete. The factory was opened on 4 June 1993 by the then

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, almost six months after vehicle production had begun.

History

The factory's first car, a charcoal

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, rolled off the production line on 16 December 1992. The first Carina E to be built in the factory is preserved in the

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. Another Carina E built at the factory clocked up 560,000 miles by November 2019 after being purchased new twenty-two years earlier. An engine manufacturing factory was opened in September 1992 in

, North Wales, shortly before vehicle production commenced three months later. The first batch of the second-generation Avensis built at the factory was exported to Japan from

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in July 2003, pending the launch of the vehicle in the

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that autumn.

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, the then

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, visited Burnaston on 26 February 2007 to celebrate the launch of the Auris in the UK. TMUK used the occasion to announce an investment of £100 million in its factory in Deeside, to build the

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engine for the Auris in the future. It was announced in July 2009 that the factory would build the hybrid powered Auris, commencing the following year. It was announced in October 2008 that the factory had won the contract to build the third-generation Avensis. Production of this model generation started the following month, and was launched by the then

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MP. In 2011, it was announced that Avensis cars from the factory would be exported to Japan for the first time in eight years. Production of the second-generation Auris began at the factory in November 2012, with a ceremony held to mark the occasion.

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, the then Chancellor of the Exchequer, visited the Burnaston factory on 7 March 2011 to celebrate the launch of the Auris

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in the UK. Burnaston produced 180,425 cars in 2016, 5.1% fewer than the previous year. It was reported in March 2018 that the plant was operating at 50% of its theoretical maximum three-shift capacity. Production of the

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d Auris ended at Burnaston in December 2017 after nearly eleven years. TMUK also confirmed that it ceased production of the Avensis in June 2018 after more than twenty years. Production of the Auris also ended around this time at the factory after eleven years. Production of the

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at the manufacturing plant was first announced in March 2019 and commenced the following year. Production of new cars were suspended by the factory in March 2020 owing to the ongoing global pandemic, with production resuming two months later in May 2020 with measures undertaken. Production was again suspended in December 2020 amid the then ongoing travel ban in the country. Toyota denied plans to pull out of the UK in April 2022 after reports suggested the company had threatened to withdraw due to recent UK government plans to speed up the transition to

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Operations

The two factories currently employ more than 3,800 staff. The processes at Burnaston currently include stamping (pressing panels from rolls of steel), welding, painting, plastic mouldings (bumpers and instrument panels/dashboards) and assembly and at Deeside machining, assembly and aluminium casting. At its fastest speed, one car can come off the end of the production line approximately every sixty seconds. Toyota Manufacturing UK, in partnership with

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, organise the Toyota Technology Challenge, a national UK

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and

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competition for secondary schools.

Production

Current models

* Toyota Corolla E210 (2018–present) * Suzuki Swace (2020–present) File:Toyota Corolla Touring Sports Hybrid (E210) IMG 2661.jpg, Toyota Corolla (E210) File:Suzuki Swace IMG 3650.jpg, Suzuki Swace (E210)

Former models

Toyota Carina E The is an automobile manufactured by the Japanese automaker Toyota across eleven generations between 1957 and 2001. On launch, the Corona was Toyota's next to highest product in their range, just below the Crown. The Corona was marketed i ...

(1992–1997) *

Toyota Avensis The is a mid-size/ large family car built in Derbyshire, United Kingdom by the Japanese automaker Toyota from October 1997 to August 2018. It was the direct successor to the European Carina E and was available as a four-door saloon, five-door l ...

(1997–2018) *

Toyota Corolla The is a series of compact cars (formerly subcompact) manufactured and marketed globally by the Toyota Motor Corporation. Introduced in 1966, the Corolla was the best-selling car worldwide by 1974 and has been one of the best-selling cars in ...

(1997–2007) *

Toyota Auris The is a compact car derived from the Corolla, manufactured and sold by Toyota. Introduced in 2006, the first generation three/five-door hatchback shared the platform with the E150 series Corolla, while the second generation five-door hatchba ...

(2006–2018) File:Toyota Carina E front 20071006.jpg, Toyota Carina E (T190) File:2000 Toyota Avensis GS 1.6 Front.jpg, Toyota Avensis (T220) File:Toyota Avensis (II) – Frontansicht, 1. September 2013, Münster.jpg, Toyota Avensis (T250) File:Avensis 3G (cropped).jpg, Toyota Avensis (T270) File:1998 Toyota Corolla 1.6 Liftback (8066674795).jpg, Toyota Corolla (E110) File:Toyota Corolla 5-doors.JPG, Toyota Corolla (E120) File:Toyota Auris 20090814 front.JPG, Toyota Auris (E150) File:Toyota Auris hybrid estate aka station wagon at Schaffen-Diest.jpg, Toyota Auris (E180)

References

External links

* {{Automotive industry in the United Kingdom Toyota factories Motor vehicle assembly plants in the United Kingdom Toyota subsidiaries Companies based in Derbyshire British subsidiaries of foreign companies