The Toyota Australia Altona Plant opened in 1978, as
Toyota's first engine plant outside of Japan. Panel production began in 1983, before full vehicle production commenced in July 1994 with manufacture of the
Corolla transferred from
Port Melbourne followed in January 1995 by the
Camry. The expanded plant built by
John Holland was opened by Prime Minister
Paul Keating. Altona also manufactured the
badge engineered Holden Apollo and
Holden Novas. It exported cars to Brunei, Kuwait, New Zealand, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Thailand and the United Arab Emirates. In August 2012, Altona competed its one millionth vehicle for export. This occurred in October 2017. The site was redeveloped with the former manufacturing building converted into a redevelopment facility which included vehicle design and testing studios, training rooms, a mock sales dealership, auditorium and 400 person bistro. In 2024 Toyota began assembling and distributing stationary
hydrogen fuel cell power generators at Altona. ==References==