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Brake Supplier In Japan Temporarily Halts Production, Toyota Could Be Affected

Advics, a Japanese braking component supplier for the automotive industry, halted production at one of its factories after an explosion.
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According to Automotive News, the incident happened at the company’s Kariya plant, located in the Aichi Prefecture, Japan. The same location hosts the headquarters and technical center of the corporation, but the blast occurred near the painting line of the factory.

The report says that four people were hospitalized after the accident, but only one of them has been severely injured. The extent of the damage is not known at this time, but production has been halted until they discover the problem.

Advics Corporation is a supplier of Toyota Motor Company, Japan’s biggest automaker. While Toyota has not made a statement on the matter, its production might be affected because of the case, if the supplier does not manage to restart manufacturing in the coming days.

This would be the third time this year when Toyota might have to halt production because of an incident at one of its suppliers or plants in Japan. The previous events occurred in the form of an explosion followed by a fire at the Aichi Steel Corporation, while the second event was an earthquake that struck the southern island of Kyushu.

Toyota estimates losing around 80,000 vehicles in output this year because of earthquakes alone. The natural disaster that occurred last month in Kyushu was the worst to hit the Land of the Rising Sun since March 2011.

The explosion that happened today in the Advics Kariya factory in Japan might affect other automakers. Last month, General Motors had to idle four plants in North America because an unnamed Japanese supplier was hit by the earthquake that struck its country.

At the same time, automakers Toyota, Mitsubishi, and Nissan had to halt production to assess the damage suffered by their facilities in Japan. Their key suppliers had stopped manufacturing because of the same reason, so they would have run out of components if they did not stop and check their plants for damage.
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Sebastian's love for cars began at a young age. Little did he know that a career would emerge from this passion (and that it would not, sadly, involve being a professional racecar driver). In over fourteen years, he got behind the wheel of several hundred vehicles and in the offices of the most important car publications in his homeland.
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