Hino announces plan to restructure production

Truck maker is reorganising and streamlining its processes

Hino has announced a plan to restructure its global production and supply structure. The truck maker is reorganising and streamlining its processes, with domestic efforts focusing around the Koga Plant in Ibaraki, and the Nitta Plant in Gunma in Japan. The Japanese automaker is relocating its large-sized engine production from the Hino plant in Tokyo to the Nitta plant, and the operations are scheduled to commence by mid-2016. The production processes for engines, transmissions, and differential gear carriers will be centralised at the Nitta Plant – the mother plant for unit production – to enable integrated production. The Nitta plant will supply these components to the Koga plant and various other plants in Japan and overseas. The Koga plant will become the mother plant for medium-to-heavy vehicle production by mid-2016. Moreover, the Koga plant will also produce axle, frame, and cabins for the vehicles, which will start in fiscal year (FY) 2016.