Welcome to Toyota Motor Manufacturing West Virginia (TMMWV). Toyota West Virginia is Toyota Motor North America’s only plant to build engines, transmissions and hybrid transaxles all under one roof. Our products are built for the Toyota Avalon, Camry, Corolla, Highlander, RAV4, Sienna and Lexus ES and RX350.
TMMWV has grown from 300 to nearly 2,000 team members today. Over the past 25 years, it has expanded nine times.
Click on the video below and see what advanced manufacturing delivers at Toyota West Virginia:
FROM AUTOMATED LOOM TO AUTOMOBILES
From a young age, Toyota’s founder, Sakichi Toyoda, held a strong ambition to improve life for others. Watching his mother weave textiles, he saw the opportunity to mechanize the process for efficiency and to ease the burden on the worker. In 1896, Sakichi invented Japan’s first power loom and continued to innovate the technology and process by inventing the non-stop Type G shuttle loom in 1924.
THE START OF SOMETHING BIG
In May 1996, Toyota Motor Corporation announced a 230-acre property in Buffalo, West Virginia had been selected as the site for Toyota Motor North America’s first and only engine and transmission assembly plant.
The facility broke ground in September 1996, originally building a team of 300 to produce 300,000 4-cylinder engines. Before construction was complete in 1998, the plant was awarded a V6 engine production line, marking the plant’s first expansion prior to the facility’s opening.
IMPRESSIVE PRODUCTION MUSCLE
Today, TMMWV’s 2,000-strong workforce can crank out more than 1 million engines and transmissions per year. A new transmission can roll off the assembly line about every 25 seconds, with four-cylinder engines rolling off every 30 seconds. Those represent the fastest production times for Toyota, globally.
FIRST HYBRID TRANSAXLE IN NORTH AMERICA
Currently, Toyota West Virginia produces four-cylinder, V6 and TNGA (Toyota New Global Architecture) engines, and eight-speed transmissions for the Toyota Avalon, Camry, Corolla, Highlander, RAV4 and Lexus ES and RX350. Additionally, in mid-2020 TMMWV became the first Toyota facility in North America to produce hybrid transaxles, which are built for the Highlander and Sienna.
GROWING FAST
Toyota West Virginia's employees are notably skilled, passionate, talented and exude the spirit of kaizen. Thanks in part to our dedicated workforce, we have expanded our facility nine times. This $1.5 million investment makes Toyota West Virginia one of the largest companies in the state.
DO YOU HAVE WHAT IT TAKES TO WORK AT TOYOTA WEST VIRGINIA?
Our products are only as good as the people who make them. And our employees are among the brightest and most highly-skilled in the world. We respect them for their talent, commitment to safety and quality, and dedication to continuous improvement.
We are also looking to add to our growing team. If you are interested in a manufacturing career at a world-class company with excellent benefits, CLICK HERE.
ADVANCED MANUFACTURING IS WHAT WE DO
At Toyota West Virginia, we use high-tech manufacturing systems to produce some of the most technologically advanced engines on the road today. With Toyota New Global Architecture (TNGA), we’re making ever-better products through smarter, more flexible manufacturing and innovation in powertrains.
WORKING WITH ROBOTS
We work collaboratively with robots to ensure safety, reduce fatigue and increase efficiency. Robots also perform some of the repetitive production processes, such as moving parts. These robots are also programmed by our own Toyota West Virginia employees.
LET’S MAKE A BETTER PLANET
In October 2015, Toyota announced the global Toyota Environmental Challenge 2050. At Toyota West Virginia, that means supporting our environmental focus areas: REDUCTION OF CARBON, WATER CONSERVATION, REDUCING MATERIAL WASTE and SUPPORTING BIODIVERSITY.
We also work hard to educate our team members and share our environmental know-how with others.
WHAT TOYOTA IS DOING TO REDUCE CARBON
One significant way TMMWV is working to reduce electricity by installing the largest solar array in the state of West Virginia. The array will span 4.3 acres and generate 2.6 megawatts of solar-generated energy. The $4.9 million investment will reduce CO2 emissions at the plant by 1,822 metric tons annually. The project is expected to be complete in March 2021.
WHAT YOU CAN DO TO REDUCE CARBON, TOO
Make your carbon footprint a little smaller. Turn off a light, change out a bulb and make your next vehicle a hybrid.
WHAT TOYOTA IS DOING TO CONSERVE WATER
At Toyota West Virginia, we are constantly researching ideas for water conservation, especially in our manufacturing processes. Our goal is to use fewer and fewer gallons, each year, to produce our engines.
WHAT YOU CAN DO TO CONSERVE WATER, TOO
Turn off a faucet, and if you water your plants or lawn, make it early in the day.
HOW TOYOTA REDUCES WASTE
Toyota is always looking for ways to reduce waste, from the largest manufacturing site to the smallest office. At Toyota West Virginia, that means converting to compostable food containers and working to eliminate single- use plastics in our cafeterias.
WHAT YOU CAN DO TO REDUCE WASTE, TOO
Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. Reusable water bottles and grocery bags every time!
HOW TOYOTA SUPPORTS BIODIVERSITY
Toyota’s biodiversity efforts support the unique balance of plants, animals and ecosystems. One of the highlights at Toyota West Virginia is a bio-diverse walking trail – known as “The Green Mile” that has been certified by the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources and recognized by the Wildlife Habitat Council.
HOW YOU CAN SUPPORT BIODIVERSITY, TOO
Make your yard pollinator-friendly. Plant native plants and trees, especially species that attract butterflies and bees.
BUILDING A BETTER FUTURE, TOGETHER
The Toyota Way is built on two pillars: Respect for People and Continuous Improvement. Through TMMWV’s philanthropic program, we work to be good stewards of the communities TMMWV’s employees not only work in, but live and play in, as well. To date, we have awarded more than $10 million in program funding for organizations dedicated to education, community resilience and inclusive mobility.
Toyota encourages employees to give back to the community both corporately and individually. We applaud their strong commitment to improving the communities in which we live.
IMPROVING OUR COMMUNITIES
TMMWV’s employees and their families are actively engaged in our communities by giving their time, talents and treasure to initiatives that are passionate to them.
As a company, we provide various opportunities to give back through activities like our yearly volunteer event with National Public Lands Day, where we work to beautify a piece of land nearby our plant.
STEM EDUCATION AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT
Introducing students to the importance of STEM throughout the manufacturing process is one way to help build a pipeline of the next generation of employees at Toyota West Virginia. Demonstrating how we program collaborative robots at community events, facility tours, career events, and camps allows us to show K-12 students that STEM activities are not only fun, but educational as well.
MOBILITY FOR ALL
At Toyota, we believe when people are free to move anything is possible. Our teams of engineers and designers are relentlessly focused on not only making our vehicles safer and more accessible, but, also, developing the future mobility products that will ensure everyone has the freedom to move, engage, and explore.
TOYOTA IS THE MOBILITY PARTNER OF THE 2020 OLYMPICS
Toyota will furnish an array of advanced, battery-electric mobility vehicles (BEV) and personal mobility products to the Olympic and Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020. The Accessible People Mover (APM) and self-driving ePalette will make it easier to move between venues. Personal-mobility products like Standing-type and Sitting-type Walking Area BEVs will make it easier for people of all abilities to move within venues. And robots that move on behalf of people like the Human Support Robot (HSR) and T-TR1 Telepresence Robot expand the very notion of what mobility means for the Games.
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