Toyota Motor Corporation has confirmed plans to build a new factory in Malaysia. The new plant will be located in Bukit Raja Industrial Estate, Klang, and will have an initial annual production capacity of 50,000 units a year, which can be expanded with increased demand. Combined with the current factory, Toyota’s Malaysian production volume will be around 90,000 to 100,000 units per annum.
UMW Toyota Motor (UMWT) will invest approximately RM2 billion for this project, a total sum that includes land cost, construction, equipment and engineering support from Thailand and Japan. It is the biggest investment ever by UMWT in the company’s history.
The 670,000 square metres new plant is part of Toyota’s plans to reorganise its production system in Malaysia. The current Assembly Services Sdn Bhd (ASSB) factory will be left to focus on the production of commercial vehicles, while the new plant takes on production of passenger cars, including Energy Efficient Vehicles (EEVs).
Construction of the new plant, which is 10 km away from the current ASSB plant and near to Port Klang, will start in the second half of this year. Toyota expects production to start in early 2019, the time when the ASSB plant will cease to roll out passenger vehicles.
Toyota says that the new “Simple, Slim and Flexible” plant will be one of its most advanced in the world, the next step in its efforts to create competitive plants using innovative production technologies such as freely extensible lines and compact painting booths; features which will also be introduced in Toyota’s new Mexican plant and new Chinese line.
“This plant is another of our efforts to create new, competitive plants, following the decisions made last year to create a new plant in Mexico and a new line in China, and the opening of two new engine plants this year in Indonesia and Brazil,” said Tatsuro Takami, managing officer at Toyota Motor Corp.
“In addition to introducing cutting edge production technologies, we will dedicate ourselves to developing the personnel who support the making of ever-better cars. By doing this, we will provide high quality vehicles to Malaysian customers through UMWT,” added Takami, who is in Malaysia for the announcement.
At the press conference, it was revealed that the Vios currently has a localisation rate of 50%, and the company aims to increase this figure with the new plant. The products of the new plant will be for domestic consumption, and Toyota sees growth in the Malaysian auto market in the mid to long term. Additionally, Toyota Boshoku UMW, a joint venture between UMWT and Toyota Boshoku Corporation Japan that supplies seats and and interior components, will also move its production activities to the new plant.
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Ok cronies win big time… will future models get cheaper price???
Jaw dropping.. They thought no investor will do business in Malaysia..Suddently big slap come from TMC… If no plant blame government,now they invest new plant blame cronies pulak.Malaysian never satisfy unless he can get benefit for himself..Jealousy at it best!
2b thanks to owner VIOS 90K(50k) ALTIS 120K(60k) CAMRY 150K(75k) bloody work hard 9yrs installment money
Toyota new model vios G paint work very poor i don’t know how many paint layer and this is my car just buy paint front bumper chip off got defect ,just one month car , I’m complaint to service center melaka still waiting for answers. I buy first toyota car but got problem.
Who are cronies?
Big flashy new manufacturing plant, but the production line will lack stations for installing airbags and VSC systems. The steel stamping stations will still be happily using mild steel blanks because heck, who needs Ultra High Strength Steels when you’re driving a Toyota..
Bro. U will notice in their bullet points above, that “Better Safety” is missing somewhere.
Toyota is still mainly using 500MPa UTS high-strength steel for their Camry, Vios etc. and even Honda’s still using that as the strongest car member up till the previous Honda City, Civic and Accord.. And yet, people will say these cars are solid while Protons built with 1500Mpa UTS hot-stamped boron steel are labeled as “milo tin”. No wonder Malaysia is descending into a failed state.. too many low-IQ morons around..
Price & spec will definitely NOT be reduced. One can expect less sound proofing between Honda and Toyota.
Want cheap? Continue buy your proton.
Wan early afterlife? Continue to buy toyotas/P2
ironically, we all know there is a large gap in term of defect possibility between toyota and proton on the road in the past years. but still, why are you needed to curse one another.
ProtonGSC, investment came in not right, investment not coming you bash. Everything is not right for you. Please at least once be positive brother. Investment masuk cakap crony. You masuk la invest. Negative minded people only knows to complaint.
Basher is bash first, brain last
kumpol dueeet..Toyota CH-R ckd^^
jobs..
New plant? if any vacancy, please cc to me =P
‘Simple, slim and flexible.’… Ironically thats how most toyota cars feel like…
new plant? if any post available, cc to me =P
some sohai ppl still think think their toyota car made in Japan?
Why would you think that your Toyota is made in Japan?
If not enough capacity to meet high demand, they can buy some empty car factory in Tanjung Malim.
In your dream
Most ppl think they drive doraemon & nobita origin car..not to realise the car coming from chiang krung krai mai thai.Khuwahuahuahua
Proton pls take this opportunity to close down and all their workers work at Toyota new plants. So that car price will down. Car buyers happy, proton workers happy, toyota happy and Tun M unhappy ~~
Why in Thai cars are still expensive?
Honda had open their factory in Malacca. Sorry to disappoint you, Proton still not close shop.
In SG, cars r with 300% COE. minimum. Axia can go up to 500%. Mau?
The immediate concern with UMW…is SALES.
Why has Honda overtaken Toyota here?
1.Aggressive new product launching
2.Very productive and friendly salesforce
3.Very competitive pricing
4.Up to date technology/specs
5.Listens to customer’s requirements
How toyota tho a good brand has not delivered.
Toyota Japan….you can build 10 factories here.The unsold stocks will pile more pressure on you.You have to discover why UMW is failing inspite of your worldwide reputation,which is in tatters now in Bolehland.
Friendly sales force??really??? Used to get accord at sg.buloh autoword asia (honda dealer) … not so friendly.. only after i booked the car then they being “friendly”… just because i walked in with “selekeh” cloth.. damn la honda.. toyota 2×5
Mr.Accord owner,
Perhaps u kena a bad apple.Overall,they are friendly.
Actually Toyota’s salesforce extra friendly now cos they got poor sales.
But why people migrating to Honda?
Isnt Toyota a giant ?
Not so here in Bolehland.
My son’s vios waiting for more than 5 weeks.Still no damn spare parts in sight.And they dont even call u to update u.
When we call HQ ,they said the lady having prayers at 4pm.OMG…what type of service is this? You call this world class?
Toyota sales not affected by Honda. Toyota Malaysia still records the same sales figure year after year for the past 9 years or so. Which is between 88-100k. It was proton and other brands that affected.
Danny, this means that the cars will be CKD-ED?
Most Toyota car to UMW already CKD ed at Shah Alam essembly plant… Parts from Thai
Toyota has been assembling cars in Malaysia for decades now. The new plant will in the future assemble passenger cars, leaving the current Shah Alam plant to focus on commercial vehicles
Current plant is the one where Toyota had assembled many models including corolla ke30, ke70 DX and GL, corolla LE, SEG and altis. And corona. And camry. And landcruiser Prado. And hilux. It is so old and difficult to expand to prepare for the coming 20 years.
What does this plant do? Take the safety features out of imported Toyotas?
2 Billions for a 50,000 units per year factory is a daylight robbery ..
they are taking advantage of EEV vehicle production incentive by government. which means we will see another wave of toyota hybrid cars added onto malaysian roads.
Taking advantages to claim more profit from EEV, not to channel the profit to customer.
Will Toyota say ‘ta ta’ to Malaysian passenger cars and instead import form Indonesia either in CKD or semi CKD form? They could easily easily re-badge a Daihatsu from Indonesia and put a Toyota badge when they assemble it here and charge Toyota prices and make tons of profit!
Why not? It’s all about production costs and profits, in the end. And buyers would think they got the ‘real thing’!
That already happened for almost 10 years. The Toyota rush is a CBU from Indonesia.
And so is the current Avanza – imported from Indonesia as well.
Set up new plant for UBER-TOYOTA JV?
The factory probably at 80% complete as I’ve seen the facility while out for lunch last month with colleagues.
That building is the PDI centre which is next to the land that this factory will be built on.
Quite a strategic move as UMW also got paint center somewhere in Bukit Raja vicinity. But what baffles me is the fact that UMW is not leveraging on Perodua’s PGM new factories. Assuming that Toyota took 100% stake in Daihatsu, Toyota is already an indirect owner of Perodua. Perodua should be a positioned as Toyota’s sub-brand for Asean region, where platforms are shared between one another. There should be a deeper partnership like the one in Indonesia to boost Perodua’s export market (The Myvi badged Sirion is not doing well there as compared to Jazz). In this case, probably UMW stakeholders (or perhaps Toyota Japan) doesn’t want to lose Toyota’s branding power, and continue milking profit from Perodua.
Nice. Spanking new, one of Toyota’s most advanced factory in the world to assemble vehicles with no VSC.
Heheh “car enthusiast” here will buthurt even more
Especially those who says Toyota cars are moving coffin
They are setting up coffin shop here for you
Still want complain?
Maybe can move to other country, because you know one or two less security feature suddenly the car can kill anyone and everyone
Maybe “car enthusiast” here needs to buy more ky jelly
I recommended ky jelly but not a ky jelly salesman or insider ya
Maybe Toyota should offer those whiners and bashers here an opportunity to work in the automotive industry and see how hard tough the industry is since they now have a new plant in Malaysia
Is this sammy newest dupe kah? Then I will tell u how to tell ur boss how to increase toyota sales thru the roof. And this is FOC, seeing how ur 77% sales drop almost gip u multiple heart attacks.
All toyota need to do is to partner with nirvana to gip free 1 burial plot for each car sold. Its so that ur customers will have peace of mind when encountering an accident, by being able to Rest In Peace.
Why dont you tell that directly to Toyota
Maybe they will like your idea and make you CEO of Toyota Malaysia/Asia Pacific with your brilliant idea?
Perhaps as an incentive they might give you 0.1% commission on total sales figure
In no time you can be hugging some JAV actresses and complaining in Ferrari forums about how shitty their car suspension is as your Jav gf’s fake silicons jiggles too much in a Ferrari
Sell to who?
Even i was a hard core toyota fan also.give up after ur poor aftersales service center in johor.
When your investment only for Malaysia market but not export you know something is wrong and fishy…
catering for more volumn in coming years, wawasan 2020
what??? No autopilot???
Toyota is always impressed by the wonderful work, we see technology through Toyota