Toyoda Gosei to Enhance Production Capacity for Safety Systems in Brazil

Toyoda Gosei to Enhance Production Capacity in Brazil

The company will enhance production capacity to keep pace with growing sales of airbags and steering wheels.

Toyoda Gosei Co. will enhance the production capacity at its group company in Brazil, GDBR Industria e Comercio de Componentes Quimicos e de Borracha Ltda. (GDBR), in order to keep pace with the growing sales of airbags and other safety systems in South America.

Toyoda Gosei says it will expand the GDBR plant building and install airbag and steering wheel production equipment to raise production capacity, while also seeking to improve productivity by optimizing the layout of the entire manufacturing facility.

The Toyoda Gosei Group began producing automotive parts at GBDR, its first location in Brazil, in 2015. Since then, it has increased production and sales centered on interior and exterior products and door and window sealing rubber products (weatherstrips). It will continue to meet the needs of automakers and grow its business in the South American market, where sustained growth is expected, with a special focus on safety systems, one of the company’s major products. 

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