Toyota was forced to sbut all its Japanese plants when an earthouake hit is soepplier for piston rings. James Griffiths looks at what lessons, if any ,the car industry can learn in disaster management Just two weeks after Marco Pintor joined Pininfarina as the director of its Bairo plant in Italy a tornado ripped it to pieces."A path less than two-thirds of a kilometre of land wide was affected," he says."It basically went straight for us. It was such an unusual event - this is not an area for tornadoes."
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