THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
April 12, 2023 at 15:47 JST
Akira Onishi, right, president of Toyota Industries Corp., and another executive apologize at a March 17 news conference in Nagoya. (Takeshi Narabe)
World leading forklift manufacturer Toyota Industries Corp. is recalling two models of its diesel-powered forklifts for defects in its emissions control systems.
The company notified the transport ministry on April 11 of its intent and is offering customers free repairs.
The recall covers a total of 72,366 forklifts of the Geneo and Shovel Loader models manufactured between October 2014 and March 2023.
According to transport ministry officials, the two forklift models were found to have defective emissions control systems for their diesel engines.
Prolonged use of the forklifts can lead to deterioration of the fuel injection mechanism that, in turn, could result in emitted particulate matter exceeding legal standards.
Company officials said there was a possibility of particulate matter in the emissions exceeding the standard by 1.4 times.
Transport ministry officials have been investigating Toyota Industries since its March announcement that it had fabricated results of emissions testing in forklift engines, which forced some forklift shipments to be halted.
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