Overseas, a technical support agreement was signed with France-based Manitou and knock down production began in 1987. Toyota Industrial Equipment Mfg., Inc. (TIEM) was established in the United States in 1988 as production structures were steadily improved in Japan and other countries. Cumulative lift truck production in Japan reached 500,000 vehicles in 1985, and global cumulative lift truck production reached one million vehicles in August 1995.