TOYOTA Commemorative Museum / Establishment of domestically produced technology
The TOYOTA Commemorative Museum of Industry and Technology was established by the Toyota Group companies in 1994 on the location of the first factory built by Toyota. The museum's Textile Machinery Pavilion and Automobile Pavilion present the development of Japan's industrial technology with exhibits of textile machinery, one of the core industries that helped build modern Japan, and automobile engineering, which continues to drive the country's development. (For more information, see the February 2012 issue of the PR magazine pla-topia.) http://www.tcmit.org/
Establishment of domestically produced technology (Toyopet Crown)
The hard top roof panel in the 1957 FJ Land Cruiser was manufactured using the hand layup lamination molding process. After laying epoxy resin, a glass matting, and rigid urethane foam in the mold, a vacuum was applied to the interlayer gaps and the materials thereby adhered to each other.
Material technology:
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