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Yamaha Motor Announces Production Adjustments and Temporary Business Closure in Response to COVID-19

IWATA, April 24, 2020 - Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. (Tokyo: 7272) announced today that it will temporarily close all business locations, factories, and offices in Japan for five days, from May 18 to 22. The only exceptions to this temporary closure are the Hamamatsu Robotics Building and the Miyakoda Building, two robotics-related facilities based in Kita Ward, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture.

    Additionally, two outboard motor manufacturing facilities—the Fukuroi Minami Factory in Fukuroi and Yamaha Kumamoto Products Co., Ltd. in Yatsushiro—will carry out production adjustments from June 1 to 15.

These closures follow Yamaha Motor’s temporary suspension of production at motorcycle- and outboard motor-related factories, as announced on April 9.

 

■ Production adjustments news release dated April 9

https://global.yamaha-motor.com/news/2020/0409/production.html

 

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Yamaha Motor (TOKYO:7272) is a world-leading producer of motorcycles, marine products, power products and robotics.

Yamaha Motor (TOKYO: 7272) is a world-leading enterprise manufacturing land-mobility such as motorcycles, all-terrain vehicles, and electrically power assisted bicycles, marine products such as boats and outboard motors, robotics products such as surface mounters and drones, as well as engagement in the finance business. The company's diverse businesses and wide variety of products are built around its proprietary technologies focused on powertrain, chassis and hull, electronic control, and manufacturing technologies. Yamaha Motor operates global development, production and sales networks through 140 subsidiaries and equity-method affiliates in 30 countries and regions, working to realize our Corporate Mission of being s "Kando* Creating Company."
About 90% of consolidated net sales are generated in more than 180 countries and regions outside of Japan.
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