Suzuki has unveiled plans to construct an engine plant in Indonesia, which is set to be ready by March 2012, according to the Nikkei.
When operational, the facility – which is being built at its existing production base in West Java – will have a build capacity of 100,000 engines a year. It already makes 50,000 engines a year in Indonesia, but imports the rest from Japan to fulfill the demand from its local assembly operation, which produces the Swift, SX4 and APV minivan.
Local assembly output was 75,000 vehicles in fiscal 2010, but the Japanese automaker is set to increase its annual output to 100,000 units. The new plant will obviously help boost local procurement, lower production costs and improve efficiency. The total investment for the exercise will amount to 30 billion yen (RM1.13 billion)
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I’m waiting for Kizashi come to Malaysia, all the best for Suzuki.
but March 2011 has passed! Is it not ready yet?
Funny, I must be living in the past! Keep thinking its 2010! Corrected.
will be ready march 11?past dy le..
Losing track of time. Next, reality. :)
Too bad the investment (RM1.13 billion) was not in Malaysia to create more jobs for the locals.
with malaysia’s NAP etc, who wants to come?
Next we need to import Daihatsu, Suzuki, Audi, etc from Indonesia to M’sia…
This is the direct result of MITI’s NAP. Losing more and more FDIs.
Indon again….? why not Malaysia…?
Simple enough !!! Why Indon coz they dun have so many small Napoleon policies like Malaysia !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Cheaper labour, perhaps.
we lose…
Why didn’t Suzuki open the engine plant in M’sia?
Simple …. much much cheaper labour cost in Indonesia.
And, the people there are willing to work for a much lesser pay there than some of the commentators here who think that they deserve fat salary just because they can speak some english but spend most of their “productive” working time surfing the net and making silly comments.
What a bunch of losers ……
Manoq
Dear Manoq,
You are the biggest loser of all! classic case of pot calling the kettle black.
BTW the only reason why Suzuki went to Indonesia is because of NAP.
Even if they opened the factory in M’sia, don’t think the likes of you would buy the end products anyway as you would then come up with the following excuses:
1) Quality is crap, as the engines are not made in Japan,
2) This is not Honda or Toyota, so i won’t bother,
3) The price of the Suzuki cars are still “expensive” despite the engines being built here so i’d rather stick to H&T.
So, stop talking nonsense ………
Manoq
Melepas lagi…..