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| Company Name | Toyota Housing Corporation - Tochigi Plant |
|---|---|
| Address | 〒328-0003 3487-1 Azumahara, Daikoji District, Tochigi City, Tochigi Prefecture |
| TEL | 0282-28-1030 |
| Website | http://www.toyotahome.co.jp/ ※Click to open a separate window |
With putting a belief of "Would like to improve the housings in Japan" into the company's slogan of "Sincerely with you - Enjoy life together", Toyota Housing Corporation contributes for society. We visited their Tochigi plant and interviewed with Osamu Kitagawa, Plant Manager, and Nyu Nukiya, Manager of Control Group.
【Eco-Mirai Housing Premium Model
【Assembly Process in the Plant】
Toyota Housing Corporation (here in after Toyota Housing) promotes technical development, production, construction, and after sales service for housing.
Toyota Housing - Tochigi plant manufactures mainly standalone houses by a unit-construction method. The unit-construction method builds square shape box type units and assemble them at the site.
It's feature is to build almost 85% of the house at inside the plant. This percentage of built-in the plant is highest among this industry. A high quality of products can be manufactured at inside the plant with readily available human resources, materials, and equipment without disturbances of weather.
Also a short construction period leads to the advantage of a shorter period in living at a temporary house.
【Bird's eye view of the Plant】
Tochigi plant started its operation in 1989, and covering the sales territories of Miyagi, Fukushima, Ibaraki, Tochigi, Gunma and a part of Saitama Prefecture.
This plant is conveniently situated for transportations for those areas. In closely located with the Tokyo metropolitan area, the Tohoku and Kitakanto Expressway are available in north to south and east to west, we had succeeded to select a very good land site in an excellent environment.
Since the Toyota Housing's stand alone house consist of 10 to 11 pieces of units and been assembled at the site, those expressways for transportation provide better access to Ibaraki, Fukushima and Miyagi prefectures.
They provide an advantage for our procurement of materials too. Effective material procurements are completed while our three plants in Kasugai, Yamanashi, and Tochigi are circulated by trucks, Tochigi provides an advantage by its well arranged traffic infrastructures.
We believe to have a few natural disasters is also advantageous. Typhoons are retarded normally before reaching to here. There are some snow falls, but snow-removal work is very seldom.
Rich natural resources and water are very much appreciated. To prevent rusting on the units, cathodic electrodeposition painting is applied on housing units, and a large amount of water are required in this system.
Our other plants are using industrial water, but the rich under ground water is utilized in here. Of course, we do fully respond to environment requirements, the processed water are recycled and returned as clean water.
【ECO-Mirai in Winter】
【ECO-Mirai in Summer】
The utmost appealing points of Toyota's house are 85% built-in plant ratio, top ranked earthquake-proof, and durability.
Another difference with others is cathodic electrodeposition painting. This is a painting system used for car production in Toyota Motors, and Toyota Housing also introduced this. Since Toyota Housing is a Toyota group company, we offer high quality of housing by applying Toyota Motors technologies as much as possible.
From now on, it is the time of environmental housing. In contrast to old day's design, the exterior and comfort in rooms are more emphasized in those days. Especially it is the time for plug-in type hybrid cars. To charge on-board battery at home, an electric outlet is needed, Toyota Housing in Toyota group has a strong point in connecting plug-in hybrid cars. Also with applying technologies developed for cars into housings, we can firmly build up environmental housings, and safe and comfortable housings.
In Toyota Housing, the same high quality of products are manufactured in every plants. Only roofs and Shiguchi (corner supports of unit box) are exclusively manufactured in Tochigi plant and supplied to other plants.
Roof units, except roof tiles, are manufactured in this plant and supplied for houses built by other plants. Shiguchi is a part mounted at the corners of units, it is the most important part for earthquake-proof constructions which receives the highest forces in case of earthquakes. Roofs and shiguchi are distinctive products exclusively made in Tochigi plant.
Plant tours are arranged by inviting customers in the process of business negotiations. This helps to provide more comforts for customers by showing our manufacturing process, in addition to our showrooms. The difference between Toyota and others is that Toyota can make a high quality of houses because 85% of its houses are built-in the plant.
It is difficult to watch all construction processes on the site, but in the plant tour, customers can see a scene of manufacturing of their own houses. Since it is very seldom to have such opportunities, many customers appreciated it very much. Housing is an expensive shopping item, in order to provide a sense of secured comfort for customers, we are arranging to show our manufacturing process in plant tours.
As one of communications with the local community, we are cosponsoring festivals in Tochigi City and the music festival in Kurano-machi.
Every month, we do cleaning activities with other companies in Daikoji Industrial Park where this plant is situated.
For environment, since our company uses underground water, in order to provide confidence on safety, our plant activities for environment are reported for everyone in this community. Toyota motors provides a guideline that stipulates clear explanations for the local community, we are following them. The report discloses such contents of, what kind of corporate activities are performed, and how the processed water had been cleaned and recycled.
For employment, to contribute for the local community, we would like to consider more local employments from now on.
【Osamu Kitagawa, Plant Manager
】Tochigi plant further strives for manufacturing the No. 1 housing for security, safety and ecology. We are looking forward to continued supports from the people of Tochigi as a business based in Tochigi.
