Changan Thailand right this moment formally launched its new automobile manufacturing plant positioned at WHA Jap Seaboard Industrial Property 4 within the Rayong province. That is the Chinese language automaker’s first facility that can function a hub to assemble Changan, Deepal and Avatr autos for Southeast Asian markets, Australia and New Zealand.
That includes a physique store, paint store, last meeting store in addition to a powertrain workshop (together with battery meeting), the ability will initially have a manufacturing capability of 100,000 items yearly, with plans to extend the determine to 200,000 items by 2027. Building of the ability began in late 2023 and it took 556 days to finish.
Previous to the launch, Changan executives met with Thailand prime minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra to debate their funding plan within the nation price over 10 billion baht (about RM1.29 billion) and future plans.
In an official launch, Changan revealed its sustainable improvement plan for Thailand’s automotive trade, which not solely consists of the brand new plant. The corporate additionally goals to extend the proportion of regionally sourced components from 60% in 2024 to 68% in 2025, and to 80% by 2028. Presently, the corporate is collaborating with over 37 components producers in Thailand.
Moreover, the corporate intends to make use of extra Thailand locals from the present 611 folks (80% of all staff) in 2024 to roughly 2,000 folks (90% of all staff) by 2026. A few of these native employees may also be supplied with the possibility to affix the senior administration crew.
Changan additionally plans to determine a R&D centre to function a regional hub for know-how and engineering improvement for right-hand drive autos. This may concentrate on new power know-how and synthetic intelligence analysis, together with know-how switch to personnel and components producers in Thailand. One other element of the plan is the establishing of a global enterprise centre to function a strategic planning heart for manufacturing, distribution and exports for regional markets.
The present line-up of Changan autos provided in Thailand consists of the Lumin metropolis automotive and Avatr 11whereas the Deepal model has the Hunter K50 (a range-extended electrical pick-up truck), S05, E07, L07 and S07.
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