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1980 |
| JA air jet loom production starts. |
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1981 |
| 10P compressor production starts. |
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Hekinan Plant starts operations, producing
automobile diesel engines. |
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1982 |
| Production starts on C-type diesel engines
for small passenger cars. |
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| Engine Division separates from Vehicle
Division. |
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| Forklift truck production reaches 500,000
units. |
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1985 |
| 10PA17 compressor production starts. |
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| Obu Plant changed its name to Foundry Division. |
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Company awarded the Deming Application Prize for quality control implementation. |
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1986 |
| Automatic guided vehicle system introduced. |
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| Production of 1Z type 3-liter direct injection diesel engine for industrial vehicles starts. |
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| Electronics Sub-Division set up. |
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1987 |
| Sprinter Cielo (exported as the Corolla Lift Back) production starts. |
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C-type diesel engine production reaches 1 million units. |
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| Toyota Industrial Equipment Manufacturing, Inc. (TIEM) established in Columbus, Indiana, USA, as a joint venture with Toyota Motor Corporation. |
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1988 |
| Sprinter sedan production starts. |
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| RX100 ring spinning frame production starts. |
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AFBR series automatic guided
forklift truck introduced. |
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Michigan Automotive Compressor, Inc. (MACI) established in Jackson, Michigan, USA, as a joint venture with Nippondenso Co., Ltd. (now DENSO Corporation). |
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1989 |
| B300 electric forklift truck controller equipped with SIT static induction transistor. |
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| HZ-type diesel engine production starts. |
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