Honda today held a ceremony to mark the start of construction of its new automobile production plant in Thailand, located within the Rojana Industrial Park in Prachinburi province. The ceremony was attended by Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, Japanese ambassador Shigekazu Sato and Takanobu Ito, president and CEO of Honda.
With an investment of approximately 17.15 billion baht (RM1.74 billion), including acquisition of the land and construction, the new plant is scheduled to become operational in 2015, with annual production capacity of 120,000 units and initial employment of around 1,200 staff. The plant will produce small and sub-compact sized vehicles.
The automaker currently assembles the Brio, Brio Amaze, Jazz, Jazz Hybrid, City and City CNG, Civic and Civic Hybrid as well as the Accord and CR-V in Thailand.
Also, Honda is planning to make an additional investment in its existing plant in Ayutthaya to further increase the plant’s annual production capacity from the current 280,000 to 300,000 units in 2014, by extending the production line. This, combined with the capacity of the new plant, means that Honda Thailand’s total annual production capacity will be increased to 420,000 units in 2015.
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This is nothing to shout about…
We have NAP…
NAP… NAp… Nap… nap… zzz… zzZ… zZZ… ZZZ
Tak serik lagi ker kes banjir dulu?
Yeah, we malaysian no need big plant like this. let the hardwork done in Thailand and Indonesia. we will continue with our lips service and harvest the bigger margin.
Malaysian are smarter..
A new plant in Thailand?
What do we get in Malaysia? A plant that is capable of rebadging an old model to be a Proton? There was a chance to build an engine plant with a Japanese partner but they blew it.
Thailand attracts car makers, meanwhile Malaysia attracts Lynas.
Thanks NAP, we will forever stick as assemble warehouse for foreign car maker. Good job TDM!
This could have been in Malaysia but ….. we have DRB-HICOM LAGI HEBAT
Honestly, I am kinda glad(just a tiny bit) that they Honda decided to open in Thailand instead of its southern neighbor. Here me out, I’am not unpatriotic, but once they’ve start a line here, I’am afraid that local policy will intervene and we get shit result like the Jazz Hybrid.
wow Honda and Mazda building massive auto plants in just one page alone…and our gomen still delaying announcing the new NAP ( which i guess will be the same aP BS) those who believed our gomen propaganda tat local auto industry employ thousands of jobs, imagine Thailand employ hundreds of thousands…
i don’t see any collaboration works btwn honda & proton….the former got appetide for large volume to meet growing demand while the latter only low volume production due to poor overseas market penetration. so excess capacity in tanjung malim plant. so isn’t it so difficult to make cars on honda behalf using its excess capacity. please no rebranding again!
thank for voting stupid government
even if they open plant in malaysia, im not impress even a bit. probably they gonna hire cheap foreigner labour since skill requirement is low. unless they open R&D centre. that’ll be different.
Experiences from current Honda owners:
CBU from Japan ( more than 10 years no major breakdown nor repair needed)
CBU from Thailand ( still okay after 5 years, minor repairs )
CKD from Bolehland, less than 2 years owning it , parts spoiled , and owner want to sell .
Honda – power of bad dream in Malaysia
agree…
NAP – Only create more car factories outside Malaysia
ehehehhee… what to do…
Spot on!
syabas Malaysia, since always tries to scare investors with water crisis, now the bigshots prefer thailand, there is plenty of water there until flooding, unlike bolehland, oso flood but always claimed shortage
Under NAP we only know how to assemble cars only.
Still in kindergarten after 40 years of NAP.
Under local assembly we get an inferior product at a higher price because all the components had to be individually pack and send to Malaysia which leads to higher transport and administrative cost,
manual welding instead of high quality automatic welding, spray on instead of dip-in antirust,no economy of scale in purchasing of parts and many other reasons.
End result is lower quality at higher unit cost.
Our government is obsessed with protecting cronies
who have a vested interest in higher car prices like AP owners, customs officers, distributors, second hand car dealers.
of coz many car manufacturer preferred thai than here. Main reason are they can get cheaper land price, raw material, labour cost, local manpower & tax.
and some more that is no intervention from politics such as 60% bumi share and management..japanese when they come,they bring with all such as transport,construction etc where chances to bloom in malaysia is small..there is lot of malaysian engineer in thailand working for them..
these cronies r so powerful that they can influence the authorities to ” push up” the prices of officiall models eg the Toyota sports car, so that Ap kings can import 1-2 year old car and resell them at much higher prices here..reported in one of the local papers last week