Aichi Steel
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Template:Nihongo; is a Japanese steel manufacturer. It is a member of the Toyota Group.
HistoryEdit
Aichi Steel was one of the earliest subsidiaries of the Toyota Group. Kiichiro Toyoda, the founder of Toyota, struggled to manufacture automobiles as the steel producers were uninterested to supply his small workshop with the steel sheets for automobiles.<ref name=":0">Template:Cite book</ref> To address the problem, Toyoda bought his own furnace that provided his company with the casting expertise and forming equipment that would shape a car.<ref name=":0" /> This iron workshop became the precursor to Aichi Steel.
The company was established in 1934 as Aichi Seiko, the steel manufacturing department of Toyoda Automatic Loom Works, the predecessor to Toyota Industries.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> The company derived its name from Aichi Prefecture, where Toyota's headquarters and major production facilities are located.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref> It became an independent company in 1940 and changed its name to its present one in 1945.<ref name="Picken" />
Today, Aichi Steel supplies 40% of the steel, springs and forged products for automotive use to members of the Toyota Group.<ref name="Picken">Template:Cite book</ref> This volume underscored Toyota's reliance on the partnership given the sophisticated nature of Aichi's manufacturing services, which few suppliers can replicate.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> In January 2016, a furnace explosion in one of Aichi's steel mills suspended production at Toyota's entire assembly plants for one week<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and threatened further disruptions to the company's operations for almost two months.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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