Toyota Canada says Cambridge and Woodstock plants not affected by possible closures

TORONTO, Ont. – Toyota Canada says plants in Cambridge and Woodstock are not closing despite Toyota saying the company will have to shut down its North American factories.

Mike Goss, a spokesperson for the Toyota Motor Corporation said, Monday, the shutdowns would be due to shortages of parts from Japan caused by the earthquake and tsunami that hit the country in March.

The shutdown  would affect about 25,000 workers and would likely take place later this month, according to Goss. Just how long the closures would last was not announced.

However a representative from Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada says they are still running two shifts a day at both plants, but they have been doing no overtime since the massive earthquake in Japan in a effort to conserve parts.

A spokesperson at the Cambridge Toyota Plant says there may be some non-production days at some point, adding nothing has been determined as of yet.

On April 1, Toyota Canada released their March 2011 sales numbers and although the numbers were down 10.7 per cent so far this year, they were a 11.1 per cent increase over the same period in 2009.  Sale numbers also showed Toyota recorded the best month ever for truck sales with an increase of 12 per cent.

Scion Canada vehicles, which Toyota is the exclusive distributor of in Canada, had their best month ever with 309 vehicles sold in March.

Toyota has more than a dozen factories across North America.

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