Lower Austria's delegation visits the largest car manufacturer in the world!
Lower Austria's delegation visits the largest car manufacturer in the world!
Nagoya, Japan - On May 15, 2025, a Lower Austrian business delegation led by Governor Johanna Mikl-Leitner visited the world's largest automotive company Toyota Industries in Nagoya, Japan. This visit pursues the goal of further deepening the existing economic cooperation between Lower Austria and Japan.
The delegation was received there by high -ranking representatives, including Chiaki Yamaguchi, former senior managing director at Toyota Industries, and the designated honorary consul Riki Inuzuka, who is also CEO of the Nagoya Airport. The program also included a visit to the Toyota Commemorative Museum of Industry and Technology, which illustrates the company's transformation from a textile machine manufacturer to one of the leading automobile manufacturers worldwide.
story of Toyota
Toyota has its roots in the 19th century as a textile company in Nagoya. In 1890 Sakichi Toyoda invented the first wooden Toyoda handweb chair, followed by the foundation of the Toyoda Power Loom in 1896. The changeover to automobile production took place in the 1930s when the first prototype of the A1 car model was introduced. The "Toyota" brand name was launched to present the company as socially committed and is also associated with innovative developments in electromobility.
economic relationships
Lower Austria has established Japan as the third highest long -distance market after the USA and China. According to the information, the region exported to Japan in 2024 in the value of around 255 million euros. Around 80 Lower Austrian companies are regularly active on this market, especially in growth areas such as automation, digitization, artificial intelligence, robotics, mobility and hydrogen technology. In the first half of 2024, exports to Japan rose by more than 7%.
An important part of the visit was also the job interview with Mayor Ichiro Hirosawa, who presents Nagoya as the fourth largest industrial center in Japan. About 2.3 million people live here, and Mayor Hirosawa was impressed by the Austrian and Lower Austrian culture and spoke about the opportunity to make the festival offer in Grafenegg known in Nagoya.
technological innovations in Toyota
As part of the factory visit, Toyota presented innovative technologies, including an autonomous forklift vehicle that is equipped with laser technology, GPS and camera control. Every year, between 150 and 200 of these state-of-the-art forklifts are produced, which are manufactured not only for Toyota, but also for customers such as Coca-Cola. In the production hall for conventional forklifts, new devices are also manufactured every 2.6 minutes, whereby the daily productions can reach up to 400 forklifts with full load.Another highlight was a musical demonstration project with robots that showed a violin -playing robot that symbolizes the innovative strength of Toyota in robotics.
This visit not only documents the historical connection and the advanced cooperation between Lower Austria and Japan, but also the common vision of investing in future -oriented technology fields and further expanding it. The Lower Austrian delegation confirmed its intention to continue to offer solutions in the areas of automation and robotics that increase both quality and efficiency in production processes. Aiut emphasizes their role in providing processes that help companies reduce costs and improve the quality of the services.
This visit was a significant step for everyone involved to sustainably promote the economic cooperation between Lower Austria and Japan.
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