Mazda building new transmission plant in Thailand

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Mazda recently held a groundbreaking ceremony at the construction site of its new transmission plant in Thailand’s Chonburi province, Mazda Powertrain Manufacturing Thailand Co Ltd (MPMT). Operations are expected to start in the first half of Mazda’s fiscal year ending March 2016.

MPMT will produce around 400,000 Skyactiv-Drive transmissions per year. Combined with the output from Mazda’s Hofu Plant in Japan, Skyactiv transmission production capacity will rise to 1.54 million units per year globally. This month, Mazda announced plans to increase production at Hofu from 750,000 to 1,140,000 units per year.

“Skyactiv technology is gaining wide acclaim all around the world. Establishing our second transmission plant, MPMT, here in Thailand will greatly enhance our Skyactiv production system and ensure that we can meet future demand for our products. This will not only help ensure Mazda’s continued growth into the future, but also make a significant contribution to the development of the automotive industry in Thailand,” said Seita Kanai, Mazda’s vice chairman of the board.

Mazda is targeting global car sales of 1.7 million units by fiscal year ending March 2016 and 80% of those are expected to feature Skyactiv tech. Expanding the company’s global production footprint is one of the initiatives of Mazda’s Structural Reform Plan.

Locally, Mazda Malaysia recently acquired a body shop from Inokom and has started construction of a new assembly facility. The brand assembles the Mazda 3 and CX-5 SUV here. Handsome new Mazda 3 to be locally assembled next?

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Danny Tan loves driving as much as he loves a certain herbal meat soup, and sweet engine music as much as drum beats. He has been in the auto industry since 2006, previously filling the pages of two motoring magazines before joining this website. Enjoys detailing the experience more than the technical details.

 

Comments

  • NAP, best automotive policy for Thailand.

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    • Apa Nama? on Jul 10, 2013 at 4:08 pm

      Thank you Tun for creating more jobs and bringing in more foreign investment into our neighbouring countries…

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      • u all still want car made in bolehland? it has no quality maa..better they built in thai higher quality

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        • Wisdom on Jul 11, 2013 at 12:09 pm

          Typical retard will complaint on the news.
          They want bigger plant here. So more malaysian can become slave to the foreigner.

          Wake up. Go on with your properties investment. Continue your study. Build your R&D firm. Register your own company. For a group of thinker.

          These are where the money comes.

          Not slaving yourself to assemble cars.

          You can do better…

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    • Jesus Tai on Jul 11, 2013 at 1:02 pm

      Thailand attracts car makers, meanwhile Malaysia attracts Lynas.

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  • lonelyobserve on Jul 10, 2013 at 2:55 pm

    From the report, the plant is almost certain of manufacturing the automatic transmission for Mazda’s SkyActiv-Drive (manual transmission version for SkyActiv is called SkyActiv-MT).

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  • totti on Jul 10, 2013 at 3:12 pm

    Because of Proton and all the AP cronies.

    All the Investment has gone to Thailand (detroit of Asia) and create more job oppurtunity for the Thai and generate more revenue to the nation.

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    • lembu on Jul 10, 2013 at 3:32 pm

      Mr.Totti, i totally agreed with you. Our govt is too internal looking, attacking every bit of possible tax from local businesses.
      A good strategy country should have encourage more oversea investments …BUT what our country have done? Automative industries are the most expensive capital investments and what our country do is let them flow into neighbour country…DISSAPPOINTED!!

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    • Anti CO2 on Jul 10, 2013 at 4:37 pm

      I’m afraid Mazda’s decision to pick TomYamLand over us is due to a bigger concern in Malaysia… lack of talent…

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      • frenzyaustin on Jul 10, 2013 at 6:38 pm

        Actually Malaysia has more talent than TomYum. But all those talent is exported to UK, Australia , New Zealand, USA for free and import third grade labour from other country.

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        • Anti CO2 on Jul 10, 2013 at 7:39 pm

          Yes perhaps… but only the G can answer this… We have the talents no doubt, but the BIG question is “What is the future of Malaysia’s auto industry”

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      • Robot boy on Jul 10, 2013 at 7:44 pm

        It is not the lack of talent. It is proven that Malaysia is far more well educated than Thailand but problem in Malaysia is that many think of fast money and out local national car could have been the best but talent is moving out of malaysia to Singapore and Austrakia and even China. Malaysia is also more politically stable than Thailand but again it is picked over malaysia. Our big business must try harder and attract more top shot companies to malaysia and open the automotive sector immediately. Problem is companies like DRB, Sime Darby etc.. They always talk big but lose to Thailand.

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  • Xefron on Jul 10, 2013 at 3:35 pm

    meanwhile in Malaysia ….. *krekk *krekk*krekk.

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  • Abdullah on Jul 10, 2013 at 3:56 pm

    Under NAP we only assemble cars not manufacture
    Still in kindergarten after 40 years of NAP.

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  • superman on Jul 10, 2013 at 4:25 pm

    this realy hurts, we have all the land, factories, well educated engineers and all and Mazda goes to Thailand to build gearboxes. all this and our own DRB-Hicom being the larget Automotive group in malaysia still thinking what to do to proton Tanjun Malim and S A plants. all these could have done here… shame…

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  • Forget about foreign investment, gomen cannot even reduce car price now we expect them to attract foreign investors? Liberate auto market now! It’s been long overdue.

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  • along on Jul 10, 2013 at 5:58 pm

    This is nothing to shout about…

    We have NAP…

    NAP… NAp… Nap… nap… zzz… zzZ… zZZ… ZZZ

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  • lembu on Jul 10, 2013 at 6:09 pm

    with high tax and high percentage of holdings power, no such foreign companies would be so stupid to dump money here and to be get eaten up by local at the end……they are not stupid, ok….

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  • west end boys on Jul 10, 2013 at 7:02 pm

    our gomen is crap at doing automotive business

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  • b sensible on Jul 10, 2013 at 11:38 pm

    i don’t understand why the nap stays for soooo looooong…even the chinese youngman ditch our national car co. for outdated tech. even then the national cars are not competitive anymore given it lacks economy of scale as it hardly find breathing space in ultra competitive overseas market!
    moving forward better national car co. be assembler, nothing else. full stop!

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