Ford has announced the official start of production for the Ranger pick-up truck at its Ford Thailand Manufacturing (FTM) plant to help meet demand across the Asia Pacific region. Ford’s joint-venture facility, AutoAlliance Thailand (AAT) will continue to remain as the company’s main production facility for the Ranger in the region.
The FTM facility, which currently makes the EcoSport, Focus and Fiesta, received an investment of US$186 million (about RM772 million) to allow for increased Ranger production, in anticipation of AAT reaching its maximum production capacity in the foreseeable future.
“The incremental Ranger volume will allow us to meet strong customer demand across the region for this Built Ford Tough truck,” said Mark Kaufman, president of Ford ASEAN. “Our additional investment in FTM also underscores our long-term confidence in Thailand, including the world-class quality being delivered by our workforce.”
Ford has invested a total of more than US$2.7 billion (about RM11 billion) between its wholly-owned (FTM) and joint-venture manufacturing facilities (AAT), and currently employs about 10,000 people in Thailand.
“On behalf of the Thailand Board of Investment, I would like to congratulate Ford Motor Company on this auspicious occasion. Ford continues to play an important role in the ongoing development of our automotive industry, and their latest milestone will help further strengthen Thailand’s position as a leading automotive manufacturing and export hub in the region,” said Hirunya Suchinai, secretary-general of Thailand Board of Investment.
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Again we are losing money. Soon Ford and even those doing CKDing in Malaysia will close shop in Malaysia and move to Thailand.
Ford alone invested RM11 billion in Thailand. That is just 1 company. Imagine all the other companies. In total, the figure runs in TRILLIONS.
Then don’t forget, all the jobs lost. Easily we have lost few hundred thousand jobs since Thailand became the Detroit of Asia.
We can continue to protect Proton and you will see, more car companies will close shop in Malaysia and pump billions in Thailand. Car companies don’t want to set up plant in Malaysia because MITI tells them how much to charge for their cars. MITI does this solely to protect Proton.
Now people can see, protecting a dying company, a company that is losing RM4 millin per day, a company that has lost RM3 billion the past 2 years has also cost Malaysia to lose hundreds of thousands of jobs and ALSO Trillions in investments.
If Proton did not exist, Malaysia would be FIRST world by now and our Ringgit won’t be so weak like how it is now.
Thank you Proton for making TRILLIONS run into our neighbouring country!
better not come here bcuz no quality..pg2 minum teh, makan nasi lemak, wasap. Just like u said before
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Better dun come here. The bosses will kamsiap hire cheap nepals instead of paying decent salary to hire locals. Locals too dun wan do 3D jobs. So not coming here is win-win for all