CAR INDUSTRY
New Toyota Assembly Plant

PT Toyota Motor Manufacturing Indonesia is building a new car assembling and painting plant in Karawang, West Java to increase production from 100,000 to 140,000 cars a year by 2013. “The plant is being built with an investment of 16.5 billion yen (Rp1.7 trillion),” Toyota Motor CEO Masahiro Nonami said in Karawang on Wednesday last week.

Toyota already has in operation a similar plant on 70 hectares of