Toyota Industries Corporation Business report FY2008

Business Highlights

Financial Overview (in millions of JPY)
  FY2008 FY2007 Rate of change(%) Factors
Overall
Sales 1,584,252 2,000,536 (20.8) -
Ordinary profit 14,343 126,488 (88.7) -
Net profit (32,767) 80,460 - -
Automotive Division
Sales 774,389 995,252 (22.2) 1)
Operating profit (11,504) 41,518 - -

1)
Automotive division performance by business
Automobiles
-Sales of Vitz, RAV4 and Mark X Zio all declined. Total sales was 378 billion 100 million yen, a 24% decrease year-on-year amounting to 122 billion yen.

Engines
-Sales of AD-type diesel engines, which are mainly mounted on RAV4, declined. Sales totaled 156 billion yen, a 12% decrease year-on-year, amounting to 22 billion 100 million yen.

Automotive air-conditioning compressors
-The Company's sales were affected by substantial decreases in production volume at automakers in Europe and Japan as well as in the USA Sales were 186 billion 300 million yen, a 26% decrease year-on-year amounting to 67 billion 200 million yen.

R&D

R&D Expenditure (in millions of JPY)
  FY2008 FY2007 FY2006
Overall 33,646 36,750 34,548
Automobiles 17,033 17,370 16,275

Main products and technological developments achieved during FY 2008, which ended on March 31, 2009
-DC-DC converters for hybrid vehicles and coolers for power control unit
-Plug-in devices for hybrid cars
-Electric compressors for hybrid vehicles which contribute to energy savings.
-Variable capacity compressors that automatically control cooling ability at an appropriate level according to the temperature and conditions of the engine.
-New clean-diesel engines

Investment Activities

Capital Expenditure (in millions of JPY)
  FY2008 FY2007 FY2006
Overall 134,534 130,776 158,632
Automobiles 52,842 43,541 57,179

Breakdown in Capital Expenditures by Major Automotive Division (in millions of JPY)
Unit: millions of yen FY2008
The Company 32,920
Tokyu Co., Ltd. 5,475
Tokaiseiki Co., Ltd. 4,802
Toyota Industry Automotive Parts (Kunshan) Co., Ltd. 2,829
Iwama Loom Works, Ltd. 1,620
TD Deutsche Klimakompressor GmbH 1,520

Plan to enhance its production facilities for automotive diesel engines (DEs)
-According to the Company's plan, the Company expects to sell 580,000 units of DEs, a 13% increase from the previous fiscal year. The production facilities will be enhanced at the Hekinan plant located in Hekinan, Aichi prefecture, where DEs for industrial vehicles and automobiles are manufactured. The construction work will start in the latter half of this fiscal year. The Company plans to make a capital investment of 110 billion yen in fiscal 2008, a 5.6% increase from the performance of fiscal 2007, of which 60 billion yen will be allocated to the automotive business. The production facility enhancement for DE will be conducted as part of the capital investment plan. (From an article in the Nikkan Jidosha Shimbun on Apr. 30, 2008)

New Equipment Installment (Automotive Business)
Company/ Plant
(Location)
Equipment to be installed Expected Investment (Millions of yen) Started Expected Completion
Companies included in consolidated financial statement
Nagakusa Plant
(Aichi Pref., Japan)
Manufacturing facilities for compact cars 6,000 Apr., 2009 Mar., 2010
Hekinan Plant
(Aichi Pref., Japan)
Manufacturing facilities for gasoline and diesel engines 2,500 Apr., 2009 Mar., 2010
Kyowa Plant
(Aichi Pref., Japan)
Manufacturing facilities for in-vehicle electronic devices,Manufacturing facilities for diesel engines, Manufacturing facilities for automotive press dies 1,726 Apr., 2009 Mar., 2010
Kariya Plant
(Aichi Pref., Japan)
Manufacturing facilities for automobile air-conditioner compressors, Manufacturing facilities for textile machinery 1,300 Apr., 2009 Mar., 2010
Higashichita Plant
(Aichi Pref., Japan)
Manufacturing facilities for casting products used in engines; Manufacturing facilities for diesel engines 1,000 Apr., 2009 Mar., 2010
Obu Plant
(Aichi Pref., Japan)
Manufacturing facilities for compressor components for automobile air-conditioners 950 Apr., 2009 Mar., 2010
Anjo Plant
(Aichi Pref., Japan)
Manufacturing facilities for in-vehicle electronic devices 567 Apr., 2009 Mar., 2010
Higashiura Plant
(Aichi Pref., Japan)
Manufacturing facilities for compressor components used in automobile air-conditioners 250 Apr., 2009 Mar., 2010
Domestic subsidiaries
Toyota Industry Automotive Parts (Kunshan) Co., Ltd.
(Jiangsu, China)
Manufacturing facilities for casting products used in engines 2,653 Jan., 2009 Dec., 2009