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Latest developments in the machine industry mass Japan's March 11 seism and tsunami. The match hardship and ensuant alteration to nuclear reactors hit disrupted the flow of machine parts and cars around the world.

In Japan:

• Toyota Motor Corp., the world's No. 1 automaker, plans to uphold creation of the Prius and digit Lexus hybrids — the HS 250h and CT 200h — on March 28. The consort is expected to ready most of its another plants closed into next week, according to IHS' Global Insight Automotive Report.

• Honda Motor Co. extended a shutdown of automobile creation at its Saitama and Suzuka factories until Apr 3. It module uphold motorcycle creation on March 28. "Honda's core bourgeois humble could be most strained by the disaster," according to IHS.

• Nissan Motor Co. resumed creation of the Nissan Leaf at its Oppama and Zama plants, but said the ability to ready producing the cars module depend on the oftenness of actuation blackouts.

In the U.S.:

• Nissan is considering producing whatever six-cylinder engines for Japan at its Decherd, Tenn., engine being because of forfeited creation at its Iwaki engine plant. That being may not uphold dealings until mid-April at the earliest, according to IHS.

• Nissan says its North dweller creation module rest at normal levels finished Apr 1. The consort is considering movement engine creation to river from Japan.

Toyota and Honda wait shutdowns at North dweller plants. Toyota is suspending period shifts and Saturday creation at its 13 plants in North America. Honda said creation could be interrupted after Apr 1.

• General Motors Co. shortly closed a pickup being in Shreveport, La., early this hebdomad due to a lack of parts. That action caused the coloured closing of a New York works that supplies engines for those trucks.

• Subaru of America has obstructed period shifts at its exclusive North dweller being in Lafayette, Ind.

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Source: Manufacturers and IHS Global Insight

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