Toyota Tsusho Integrates Domestic Aluminium Melt Business

Toyota Tsusho Corporation, a trading company of Toyota Motor Group, integrates its domestic 3 affiliates of aluminium melt business and establishes a new company with aluminium melt supply capacity at 9,000 tonnes per month on April 1. The new company will be one of the largest aluminium melt makers in Japan. Toyota Tsusho shifts technical staffs of the aluminium melt business unit to the new company. As a result, the new company is positioned as the mother company in Toyota Tsusho’s aluminium melt business global network.

Toyota Tsusho operates 11 aluminium melt plants in Japan and at overseas. The group’s global aluminium melt supply totals approximately 380,000 tonnes in fiscal 2010 ended in March 2011. In Japan, the firm operates 3 plants in Aichi, Hokkaido and Fukuoka.

Toyota Tsusho integrates domestic 3 affiliates to optimize the aluminium melt business and speed up management decision making. A company in Aichi is the merging company and becomes the headquarters of the new company, Toyotsu Smelting Technology. The new company’s capital fund is 100 million yen, 99.8% shared by Toyota Tsusho. The new company’s employee number is approximately 100.

Aluminium melt supply volume was approximately 2,500 tonnes per month in Aichi, 2,500 tonnes in Kyusyu and 1,200 tonnes in Hokkaido before the occurrence of Tohoku-Kanto Earthquake. The production is less than a half after the earthquake.

Toyota Tsusho transfers technical staffs of the aluminium melt business to the new company. The new company’s Aichi plant has its dependent production technology unit and serves technical supports for domestic and overseas aluminium melt plants as the mother plant.