General Motors has officially opened a new diesel plant in Rayong, Thailand. The new plant which is worth $200 million and is the company’s first diesel factory in region will be the first in the world to produce the new line of Duramax 4-pot oil burners that will be first installed in the Colorado pickup.
These Duramax engines are made up by a 2.5 litre as well as a 2.8 litre variant featuring overhead cams, force-induction and aluminum cylinder heads. General Motors confirmed that the plant is able to churn out 120,000 engines per year and these engines will used for vehicles manufactured in the country and in other markets.
The 54,275 square meter plant will have up to 500 employees by the end of the year and houses various state-of-the-art computers and laser-guided equipments. It is also dust-free and features an in-house climate control system to ensure the best possible environment for engine production. Furthermore, the plant uses a lighting system that consumes 40% less energy compared to conventional systems.
General Motors also revealed that it is expected to source Thai-built components that is worth $94 million for the engine production by 2012. The opening of the new plant comes after the company announced plans to invest up to $150 million in the revival of its Bekasi manufacturing facility in Indonesia which will output a new line of people movers for other Southeast Asian markets.
Since the Chevrolet Colorado was brought up in this article, it is worth to point out that the pickup is expected to make its local debut sometime in December 2011 following a recent announcement by Naza Quest CEO Datuk Maruan Mohd Said.
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nice chick!
the hot chick is to keep people motivated while working like robot in factory :)
USD 200 million + 94 million + 150 million =
RM 1.33 BILLION LOST for Malaysia !!!
This is only talking about General Motor investment ! Who is going to answer to the rakyat ?
Paul Tan for Prime Minister
becos GM do not want to
1) give any share to those sitting on board director doing nothing
2) use their appointed part supplier
simple as that.
The G making jobs for others? gimme a break. They only give foreign investment as long as they gota share the pie. Through company tax only? its not to their own pocket.
population in thai is more than double of malaysia’s. more workforce available there but Malaysia have to import workers from bangladesh and nepal to work in our factories. we now have more than 2mil foreign workers because malaysians doesn’t want low-paying jobs… and salary in Honda factory in thai is much cheaper than honda in china. RM700 only. would you work in factory with such salary???
Another MYR 1 billion here. Toyota to build a USD 388 million plant in Indonesia:
http://biz.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2011/9/9/business/20110909091628&sec=business
Congratulations to Thailand…u out shine us again!
don’t need a congratulation in order there….
it’s pretty simple when you have a oblivious gov and multitude of clowns.
as years go…the shit gets smellier and rotten….and they will go on pretending doing so.
Have u ever wonder why the auotmakers still prefers Rayong over Malaysia ???
Thailand
– G – unstable
– workforce – cannot speak english
– brand – all foreign brand
– type – assembly not manufacturing
– mode – no design input, only assembly
basically the automakers want the Thais to stay at current environment…..no technology transfer, no say in mgmt, no strong union, no point FDI if the LOCAL will still be the KULI BATAKS…..???
Yet despite of all these said disadvantages, brand after brand still choose Thailand.
What does this tell you?
Malaysia is clever, and all these manufacturers and Thailand are stupid?
I don’t want to knock P1 and P2 here, these two manufacturers have to work under severe limitations despite their market protection, but what ‘technology transfer’ have these they achieved? How much of their cars are native developed technology and how much is sourced overseas?
Are these Duramax diesel engines newly developed by GM? I searched from Internet and only found big displacement engines using Duramax naming.
MITI we have a problem !!
Why are the foreign investments avoiding Msia?
We claim to have the best work force and facilities
and yet Tanjong Malim is still operation below capacity.
Sigh !!
as long as no money/share to those incharge pocket (u know who is behind miti), like owner some share, or using apponited lousy part supplier, you think they care about creating job for the locals? thats fantasy world. Not reality.
Don’t blame MITI lar, they just follow what their masters say.
Are you sure it’ll be producing a 2.5L engine, not a 2.2L? AFAIK, there’s no GM product on the horizon that will feature a 2.5L engine…
For a tree we lost the jungle! Long life Proton! Long life Dr M!
Good one..
haha… really gud one. u should say, for a rm1 banknote, we lost all thousand hundred of rm100 bank note. ngam la sama pepatah melayu, “kerana nila setitik, rosak susu sebelanga”. this is the mighty work of mamaktir paria.
you gota see who owns the tree, and who lost the jungle. Its not the same group of people. Rakyat lost the jungle, but you-know-who owns the tree. So still no fruits to common people like us..
thumbs up if u spot a hot chic there :P
Hello Duramax Chic
That chick is hot to be supervisor
She could also be smarter than most of us combined. :-(
Daytime – Supervisor
Nightime – Pole Dancer cum Chicken in Aquarium
or esle, masat masat, thai masat, body masat, kucing masat, cheap cheap 10 baht one hour onli…..
thailand getting the good stuff again
and we are still clinging to the must-not-be-named automaker sucking the people’s hard earned money dry
Thank you Proton!!! Malaysia Boleh!!
GM spends millions into Thailand…. Malaysians spending millions buying GM cars….. Thanks to the government for protecting the local car companies, which the entire supply and distribution chain is linked to people in the government. Govt is screwing the rakyat by selling more expensive + inferior local cars to the Malaysians and selling the same car with EXPORT specs at a cheaper price to other countries….
Press “LIKE” if you feel that we are screwed by the government
Press “DISLIKE” if you are a part of the cronies
There are hardly a handful of Chevys on our roads. So our loss isn’t so great lah. [:D]
Malaysian government only have themselves to blame for losing out such a huge investment – and I wonder why they did not try to bring this kind of investment in instead of the controversial Lynas rare earth project…
gov only know to increase the docket price, thus the bigger tax can be imposed. this more important as they generated money to government than benefited rakyat. pity malaysian
As a friend put it, Mahathir is the father of the Thai auto industry.
if u look at the big picture female became supervisor while guy do the dirty work, better qualification for the female than male
They have this, and all we got is a rare-earth refinery!
The fruitful result of NAP and National cars.
if its thailand, never be so sure if its a ‘real’ chick
she looks hot… i’ll take my chances :)
You know why GM chooses Thailand over Malaysia.
1] Our new automotive policy has 100 pages of rules, regulations and conditions,
2] Getting approval for this and that from all the big and small Napoleons.
3] Changing rules all the time.
GM and other world players investment in Thailand is best sum up as they get green mountain forest, while Bodohland get jaguh kampong P1 deadwood stump at barren soil sucking rakyat dry.
No thanks to P1, P2, TDM, cronies, NAP, AP Kings craptriotic scam in enriching themselve at the expense of rakyat.
if Thai is better, why do some ppl here dont want to apply job there…
i think you may enjoy what you dream of…
no point you make noise here while stay in the system that you hate…
you are thinking the wrong thing la johnny boy…
if the G will bring more investments into malaysia. we will have more work. for everyone. period.
but i’m afriad bolehland is too far behind already… we can catch up still hopefully.. but remember if our people jagah kampung mentality still remains, die la..
Well, this is another blow to the Umnoputra selfishness. Scam the rakyat by plumping the pathetic Proton, Lotus, Mas, and countless other under-performing GLCs. Oh, wait…or maybe its a daylight robbery. Hope the rakyat realize that for every Proton sold, a hefty (and very unfair) proportion goes to some God forsaken’s pockets.
that day i drove by a proton banner in my proton savvy… the banner said celebrating 25yrs of proton or something like that…. then i looked at my proton savvy and all the other protons on the road… :(
damm sad la wei…. 25 YEARS!!
thailand is becoming the detroit of the east.. and we continue to still protect proton.
i bought proton because i still can’t afford other cars… somehow the taxes are made up such a way that the majority of working class people like me can only afford protons… even after some time working and saving my ass off… my budget range is still around 60-70… yeah.. got more choice in the second hand market you say.. pls.. why cant i have a new car at 20-30k range.. safe, reliable, affordable… no need the best no need the latest… just reasonable…
i drive a proton… but i hate you proton…. because of you. everybody suffers. yes the world will be a better place without you.
hey, that chic doesn’t wear safety helmet! Chic first safety after..haha