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Toyota is back in business as operations at its Prospecton plant has resumed after production was halted due to damages caused by floods at the facility in April. | Wheels24

• The shutdown saw the plant fail to complete the manufacturing of 70 000 vehicles.Toyota has resumed operations at its Prospecton plant after production was halted due to damages caused by floods at the facility in April.

While more than 4000 vehicles were damaged on-site during the floods, the costliest damage was to plant infrastructure, including robots and other machinery. "Not a single part of the 87-hectare site was untouched by the flooding. Many of our suppliers were also affected, and we sent staff to help them get their operations back online. We needed our suppliers also to recover to resume production," added Kirby.

"It is difficult to put a price on the damage, but it is close to R10 billion rand. This includes 4000 vehicles that were scrapped, thousands of damaged parts and damage to machinery and infrastructure. However, the real loss is in the 70 000 units of lost capacity that we were unable to produce due to the forced shutdown, which is a big portion of our planned 150 000 production units for the year," said Bronwyn Kilpatrick, vice-president of Finance and Exports, TSAM.

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