Toyo Tire & Rubber Company

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name = Toyo Tire & Rubber Co.,Ltd.

type = Public (tyo|5105)
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foundation = 1945
location_city = Osaka
location_country = Japan
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num_employees = 3,254 (As of March 31, 2007)
industry = Manufacturing
products = Motor Vehicle Tires
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homepage = [http://www.toyojapan.com www.toyojapan.com]

nihongo|Toyo Tire & Rubber Co.,Ltd. |東洋ゴム工業株式会社|Tōyō Gomu Kōgyo Kabushiki-gaisha (tyo|5105) is a tire company based in Japan. The company started in 1945. In 1966, the company expanded to the United States as Toyo Tire Corporation. In 1999, Nitto Tire North America was established. Today, it is one of the largest tire companies in the world.

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Timeline

August 1945	Toyo Tire & Rubber Co., Ltd. is established.
August 1947	The first truck tire exported.
July 1953	The Itami Manufacturing Complex is opened.
May 1956	Ayabe Toyo Rubber Co., Ltd. is established.
October 1959	Toyo Soflan Co., Ltd. is established.
December 1961	The Central R&D Laboratories (now the Technical Research Center) is opened.
1963	Car tires are exported to the United States for the first time.
March 1964	Chubu Soflan Kakoh Co., Ltd. (now Chubu Soflan Co., Ltd.) is established.
September 1964	The Hyogo Plant is opened.
March 1965	Tohoku Toyo Rubber Co., Ltd. (now the Sendai Plant) is established.
July 1966	Toyo Tire & Rubber becomes the first Japanese tire manufacturer to establish a U.S. subsidiary (Toyo Tire (U.S.A.) Corp.).
April 1971	The Akashi Plant is opened.
June 1971	Toyo Giant Tire Co.,Ltd(presently Nippon Giant Tire Co.,Ltd) estabilished.
February 1974	Toyo Tire & Rubber acquires a capital interest in Vaculug Australia Ltd. (now Toyo Tyre and Rubber Australia Ltd.)
March 1974	Toyo Tire & Rubber acquires a capital interest in Fukushima Rubber Co., Ltd.
April 1974	The Soflan Technical Center is opened at the Hyogo Plant.
July 1974	T.G.K. Seals Co., Ltd. (now T.G.K. Co., Ltd.) is established.
July 1974	Tire Testing Course opened in Miyazaki Prefectur, Japan--the first of its kind built by a Japanese tire manufacturer.
September 1975	Toyo Reifen GmbH established.
February 1979	Toyo Tire & Rubber forms a comprehensive business partnership with Nitto Tire Co., Ltd.
February 1979	Ryoto Tire Co., Ltd. (now the Kuwana Plant) is established.
March 1982	Alliance agreement with Continental AG concluded.
January 1982	Toyo Tire Canada Inc. established.
June 1983	The Fukushima Plant is opened.
September 1983	Technological partnership agreement with General Tire(presently Continental North America Inc.)concluded.
April 1986	The Automotive Parts Technical Center is opened.
November 1986	Nippon Giant Tire Co.,Ltd. established.(J.V.company with Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company.)
March 1987	New Pacific Industry Co., Ltd. is established as a joint venture with Cheng Shin Rubber Industry Co., Ltd. In the Republic of China
August 1988	Dynamic Simulation Optimized Contour Theory (DSOC) is announced as a new design theory for truck and bus tire.
November 1988	GTY Tire Company is established as a joint venture.
October 1989	The High-Polymer Processing Technology Center is opened at the Fukushima Plant
February 1990	Toyo Banden Nederland B.V. established.
January 1993	Tire Testing Course opened in Saroma, Hokkaido
June 1993	Toyo Rubber(Malaysia) Sdn.Bhd. established.
July 1995	The Tranpath MP minivan tire is launched as a the first product in the Tranpath series.
January 1996	Toyo Tire & Rubber acquires a capital interest in Cheng Shin-Toyo Tire & Rubber (China) Co., Ltd.
December 1998	The Itami Manufacturing Complex is closed.
September 1999	Toyo Tire & Rubber forms a business partnership with Kinugawa Rubber Industrial Co., Ltd.,
April 2000	The East Japan Automotive Parts Technical Center is opened.
December 2000	T-Mode is announced as a new basic design systems for tires.
February 2001	Toyo Automotive Parts (U.S.A.), Inc. is established in Kentucky, U.S.A.
November 2001	The main building at the Toyo Technical Center is completed.
August 2002	Toyo Tire & Rubber acquires a capital interest in Cheng Shin-Petrel Tire (Xiamen) Co., Ltd. (China).
October 2002	A major shopping mall, Diamond City Terrace, is opened on the site of the former Itami Manufacturing Complex.
January 2003	Toyo Tire (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. is established as a joint venture in Shanghai, China
May 2003	Toyo Rubber Chemical & Industrial Products (HK) Limited is established in Hong Kong, China.
June 2004	Toyo Tire North America, Inc. is established in Georgia, U.S.A., as a tire manufacturing base.
September 2004	Toyo Automotive Parts (Guangzhou) Co., Ltd. is established in Guangzhou, China

Company

Toyo Tire & Rubber Co., Ltd. Locations Head Office 1-17-18 Edobori, Nishi-ku, Osaka 550-8661, JapanPhone: [phone]Tokyo Head Office Mejiro Nakano Bldg., 2-17-22 Takada, Toshima, Tokyo 171-8544, JapanPhone: [phone]

Established

August 1, 1945

Paid-In capital

23,974,627,991 yen (as of March 31, 2007) Number of Employees 3,254 (as of March 31, 2007) Management BOARD OF DIRECTORSYoshio Kataoka*Yasuo Onodera*Kazuo NagaiYutaka EbuchiKenji NakakuraKenji TakadaTakuya KakunoSusumu Nishihata

*Representative DirectorCORPORATE AUDITORSKazuo Fujita*Kazunari MaedaYasutaka HosoiShuji Tsuyuki

*Standing Corporate AuditorNote: Kazunari Maeda, Yasutaka Hosoi, and Shuji Tsuyuki are the outside auditors specified in Article 2-16 of the Japanese Corporate law.CORPORATE OFFICERSYoshio Kataoka*Yasuo Onodera*Shozo KibataKazuo Nagai*Yutaka Ebuchi*Kenji Nakakura*Kenji Takada*Mitsuaki HashiyamaTakuya Kakuno*Susumu Nishihata*Hiroshi ShibataMasaharu YoshimotoMasanori KanAtsushi TasakaTakafumi IchikawaHidehiko TakahashiAkira Nobuki President and Chief Executive OfficerSenior Managing Executive OfficerSenior Managing Executive OfficerManaging Executive OfficerManaging Executive OfficerManaging Executive OfficerManaging Executive OfficerManaging Executive OfficerADVISORS EMERITUSJunji Tsumura(Chairman, Board of Directors, Toyobo Co., Ltd.)
*Concurrent with directorial position Lines of Business Manufacturing and marketing of car tires, industrial rubber and synthetic resin products, soft and rigid polyurethane products, waterproof sheets, anti-vibration rubber for automotive parts, seat cushions, and sporting goods

External links

*en icon [http://www.toyojapan.com/ TOYO TIRES GLOBAL]
*ja icon [http://toyotires.jp/ TOYO TIRES (Japan)]
*en icon [http://www.toyo.com/ TOYO TIRES (USA)]
*en icon [http://www.toyotires.ca/ TOYO TIRES (Canada)]