Toyota Australia Altona Plant

Coordinates: 37°50′08″S 144°49′52″E / 37.83556°S 144.83111°E

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Toyota Australia Altona Plant

Built	1978
Location	Altona North, Victoria, Australia
Coordinates	37°50′08″S 144°49′52″E / 37.83556°S 144.83111°E / -37.83556; 144.83111
Industry	Motor vehicle assembly
Products	Holden Apollo Holden Nova Toyota Aurion Toyota Avalon Toyota Camry Toyota Corolla
Employees	2,500 (2014)
Area	75 hectares
Address	Grieve Parade
Owner(s)	Toyota Australia
Defunct	3 October 2017

The Toyota Australia Altona Plant was a Toyota Australia manufacturing facility in the Melbourne suburb of Altona North.

History

The Toyota Australia Altona Plant opened in 1978, as Toyota's first engine plant outside of Japan.^[1]^[2] Panel production began in 1983, before full vehicle production commenced in July 1994 with manufacture of the Corolla transferred from Port Melbourne followed in January 1995 by the Camry.^[3]^[4] The expanded plant built by John Holland was opened by Prime Minister Paul Keating.^[5]^[6]

Altona also manufactured the badge engineered Holden Apollo and Holden Novas. It exported cars to Brunei, Kuwait, New Zealand, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Thailand and the United Arab Emirates.^[7]^[8]

In August 2012, Altona competed its one millionth vehicle for export.^[8] In February 2014 Toyota announced the plant would close after it decided it would cease production in Australia.^[9]^[10] This occurred in October 2017.^[11]^[12]

The site was redeveloped with the former manufacturing building converted into a redevelopment facility which included vehicle design and testing studios, training rooms, a mock sales dealership, auditorium and 400 person bistro.^[13]^[14]^[15] In 2024 Toyota began assembling and distributing stationary hydrogen fuel cell power generators at Altona.^[16]

References

^ Toyota, AMI plans for expansion Canberra Times 21 August 1976 page 15
^ Toyota to build new plant Canberra Times 10 March 1977 page 21
^ Toyota expands Australian Jewish News 20 May 1983 page 26
^ Corollas rolling at Altona Canberra Times 9 September 1994 page 17
^ Up for the Challenge: The John Holland Story 1986 - 2016. John Holland. 2018. pp. 125–127.
^ Toyota timeline: Carmaker's closure to end long history in Australia ABC News 11 February 2014
^ Toyota Opens New Plant in Altona Toyota 30 March 1995
^ ^a ^b Toyota Australia exports one-millionth car to Middle East Drive 26 September 2013
^ Toyota to close: Thousands of jobs to go as carmaker closes Australian plants by 2017 ABC News 19 February 2014
^ Toyota considers its Altona base Australian Financial Review 12 February 2014
^ Toyota workers out of jobs as car manufacturer closes Altona plant ABC News 3 October 2017
^ Toyota Ends Production in Australia After 54 Years Toyota 4 October 2017
^ Repurposing Toyota’s Altona factory into a Centre of Excellence JLL
^ Toyota opens State-of-the-Art Product Centre at Altona Torque Toyota 13 December 2021
^ Toyota Powertrain ADCO Constructions
^ Toyota to assemble and distribute stationary hydrogen fuel cell power generators GEH2 in Australia Toyota Australia 19 October 2023

Toyota

Marques

Current	Toyota Daihatsu (Perodua) Lexus Hino Leahead¹ Ranz²
Former	Scion WiLL Toyopet

Subsidiaries

Asia-Pacific	Australia Altona Plant Indonesia New Zealand Philippines South Korea Thailand Toyota Auto Body Toyota Central R&D Labs Toyota Motor East Japan Central Motors³ Kanto Auto Works³ Toyota Motors Tohoku³ Toyota Motor Hokkaido Toyota Motor Kyushu
Africa	Kenya South Africa
Americas	Argentina North America Calty Design Research Toyota Connected North America
Europe	Czech Republic France Gazoo Racing Ireland Portugal Turkey United Kingdom Manufacturing Sales
Global	Toyota Financial Services
Defunct	Russia

Affiliates

Isuzu (5%)
Mitsubishi Aircraft (10%)
Mazda (5%)
Subaru (20%)
Suzuki (5%)

Joint ventures

Current	BluE Nexus (10%) BYD Toyota EV Technology (50%) FAW Toyota (50%) GAC Toyota (50%) Mazda Toyota Manufacturing USA (50%) Toyota-Astra Motor (50%) Toyota Indus Toyota Kirloskar Motor Toyota Motor Vietnam UMW Toyota Motor (49%) Denso Ten (35%)
Defunct	NUMMI United Australian Automobile Industries WiLL

Current models

Kei cars	Copen GR Sport Pixis Epoch Pixis Truck Pixis Van
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Pickup trucks/Utilities	Hilux Hilux Champ/Rangga/Stout Land Cruiser 79 series Tacoma TownAce/LiteAce Tundra
SUVs/Crossovers	4Runner Aygo X bZ3C bZ3X bZ4X C-HR Century (SUV) Corolla Cross / Frontlander Crown Estate/Signia Crown Sport Fortuner/SW4 Grand Highlander Harrier/Venza Highlander/Kluger Land Cruiser 70 series 300 series Prado Raize RAV4/Wildlander Rush Sequoia Urban Cruiser Urban Cruiser Taisor / Starlet Cross Yaris Cross XP210 AC200
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Commercial trucks	Dyna Type 73 medium truck
Buses	Coaster Sora

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ist
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Yaris Verso/FunCargo
Zelas

Concepts and
prototypes

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Motorsports

Current	Fuji Speedway Toyota Gazoo Racing Toyota Racing Development TOM'S Toyota Racing Series Toyota Finance 86 Championship Toyota Team Europe
Defunct	Formula Toyota Toyota Team Australia Toyota in Formula One

Other

¹A brand of GAC Toyota
²A brand of FAW Toyota
³Defunct companies merged into Toyota Motor East Japan

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