Honda is back on track producing cars in Thailand. Honda Automobile Thailand Co Ltd (HATC), is restarting production today at its Rojana Industrial Park, Ayutthaya facility that was badly hit by the floods that covered Thailand late last year.
Production was suspended there since October 4 last year. The process of draining out flood water was completed at the end of November 2011, and then came efforts to clean, inspect, repair and replace plant facilities and manufacturing equipment. After around four months of such restoration work, HATC is now ready for business. The company is planning a ceremony on March 31 to commemorate the restart.
Over the past months, Honda has been sourcing vehicles from Japan to some countries in the Asia-Oceania region including Thailand. This will now end since all plants have resumed production, which is expected to normalise in April. For all other Honda plants outside of the region, the impact of the flooding in Thailand has already been resolved. Honda’s Alor Gajah, Melaka plant is also back on steam.
“Positioning HATC as one of the most important production operations in the Asia/Oceania Region, Honda was totally committed to realising the earliest possible recovery. Honda will maintain the same positioning of HATC in the future and further promote business operations in Thailand,” Honda said in a statement.
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poor honda. but the local second hand value is steady due to this shortage…
Those cars looks awesome in the picture hehe
Superb new colour!! Limited edition. Hurry!! Buy one before they’re sold out. LOL
Most parts on cars can either be reclcyed or reused. It is a very good and lucrative business always a good demand for auto parts at discount prices and salvage yards help with that. They also sell steel aluminum and other things to recycling companies for good profit.
Welcome back HONDA.
Hopefully no ‘re-con’ submerged Honda sell here in Malaysia…
Honda already show a press video of all these Brio model been scapped & ensure not a single of these submerged car been “re-con”
Danny, i hope you can clarify this “with no special intension” for showing these photo.
The question is how many did the scrapped? There maybe more and I believe if its not too bad, they will still use it back..at least the parts.
Officially every single one ! Honda is Smart they know some “Sored Looser” will find fault on this, Japanese are people put reputation above their life, if this is Korean car mfg then without a doulb they will recycle the part, as they have no shame.
of cuz some components can be recycled ,aluminium engine blocks,metal,plastics.i dun see anything wrong with that
Recycle is a very common thing in this industry. Most of car parts can be recycled but I think our discussion here is about whether they use some parts right from the affected cars and put it in their new cars.
they did.metals and plastic did get recycled but of cuz they will treat or process it first.no car maker would just dismantle damaged cars and fix it’s components to new cars.from what i know,once they crushed those cars,the blocks were then melted to be re-used.because recycling does not affect the rigidity of the metal
im quite sure tat the wipers r reusable. Im willing to pay 10 baht for each wiper…
The tyres also :)
the emblem… hehehe
Same goes for the rim
lelong….lelong…cheap…cheap Honda Brio for sale. Good as decorative item in the front porch (after removing the mud stains of course) :)
Come invest in Malaysia, no natural disaster but only got frogs n free loaders
It seems that Honda has no prob with the mind natural disaster but cannot stand the frogs…
brio is no big different with viva..
This really showed malaysia’s stupidity, well particularly the govs stupidity. we could have made thailand’s misery worse by giving tax exemption on other incentives to honda to build an alternative plant here where by all models could be simultaneously produced for the south east asian market. Instead, people had reopened…..opportunity lost
Honda management too slow in deciphering thai wheather report? Maybe they were too busy checking out thai go go girls in patpong.
those cars should have been on the roads. feel sorry for the cars.
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