TOYOTA Commemorative Museum / Responding to Resource and Environmental Issues
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/
Responding to Resource and Environmental Issues (PRIUS)
Accompanying advances in electronic control of automobiles, the use of plastic materials that support this trend has also increased. Glass fiber-containing plastic materials are used sensor and actuator housings.There are surely areas remaining where plastic can contribute to realizing further environmental harmony.
Material technology:
?Polyolefin foam (instrument panel)
?Thermoplastic polyurethane (instrument panel skin)
