Toyota moving huge press back home from Brazil

The press machine, which weighs 700 tons, was installed at a Toyota plant in Japan in 1938 but has been in Brazil since 1962.

January 20, 2024 05:00 AM

Toyota is moving a 700-ton, pre-World War II press machine halfway around the world to preserve a piece of the automaker's history after closing the plant in Brazil that used it for six decades.

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