For Honda, Thailand is one of the strategic manufacturing bases. The
existing Thailand facility serves as a mother plant for cars like the
Honda City and Brio.
Currently, Honda Cars India sources majority of its imported
components for the City, Jazz and the Brio from Honda’s Thailand
factory.
Honda has announced that it will construct a brand new factory in
Thailand at Prachinburi province which is located about 120 km to the
east of Bangkok. The new production facility is expected to go on stream
in 2015 with an estimated annual production capacity of 1,20,000 units.
The new plant will mainly cater to compact vehicles. In addition,
Honda is planning to increase the production capacity of the existing
plant from 2,40,000 units to 2,80,000 units per annum. There are also
reports that the capacity could be further expanded to 3,00,000 units in
2014, so by the time the new plant is operational, the total capacity
of Honda in Thailand will be 4,20,000 units.
Honda is also working on a new factory in Indonesia and has announced
a plant in Mexico as well to cater to that part of the world. With an
ambition of achieving annual sales of 6 million units globally by March
2017, the new plants, which will primarily build the Honda Global
Compact Series models (next gen Jazz, City and Urban SUV) are
indispensable.
Source;
http://indianautosblog.com/2013/02/honda-to-set-up-a-new-production-plant-in-thailand-62999
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