History
The Toyota Australia Altona Plant opened in 1978, as Toyota's first engine plant outside of Japan. [1] [2] Panel production began in 1983, before full vehicle production commenced in July 1994 with manufacture of the Corolla transferred from Port Melbourne followed in January 1995 by the Camry. [3] [4] The expanded plant built by John Holland was opened by Prime Minister Paul Keating. [5] [6]
Altona also manufactured the badge engineered Holden Apollo and Holden Novas. It exported cars to Brunei, Kuwait, New Zealand, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Thailand and the United Arab Emirates. [7] [8]
In August 2012, Altona competed its one millionth vehicle for export. [8] In February 2014 Toyota announced the plant would close after it decided it would cease production in Australia. [9] [10] This occurred in October 2017. [11] [12]
The site was redeveloped with the former manufacturing building converted into a redevelopment facility which included vehicle design and testing studios, training rooms, a mock sales dealership, auditorium and 400 person bistro. [13] [14] [15] In 2024 Toyota began assembling and distributing stationary hydrogen fuel cell power generators at Altona. [16]
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