OREANDA-NEWS. Toyota plant in St. Petersburg in 2014 plans to increase car production by 2.3% compared with the previous year. According to the agency "Interfax" in 2013 the company produced 35,685 cars Toyota Camry, and in 2014 plans to produce 36.5 thousand of these cars.

Recall that at the beginning of November the St. Petersburg plant Toyota it was begun the production of the new Toyota Camry, and it was also launched new shop stamping body parts and the production of plastic parts. As it was noted, Toyota Camry is Toyota's flagship model range in Russia - this model provides 21% of total sales of Toyota in Russia. Toyota Camry – is also unchanged leader of segment D / E in the Russian market. The new Camry is a deep restyling of the seventh generation model, the production of which began in 2011. Seventh Generation - is the second successive generation that is produced at the Toyota plant in St. Petersburg.

With the launch of new shops, to the production processes of the enterprise, including welding, painting and assembly, it was added stamping body parts and the production of plastic parts. The level of localization of production enterprises has reached 30%.

Future plans of the Toyota plant in St. Petersburg include the doubling of the design production capacity from 50 to 100 thousand cars per year by the end of 2015 and the start of production of the second model Toyota RAV4 in 2016. Investments in the Toyota plant in St. Petersburg in 2016 will be about 16 billion Rubles. The plant will create about 800 new jobs.