“Future Proton models will be considered to be manufactured at the Tanjung Malim plant,” said Proton Holdings technical operations (Shah Alam and Tanjung Malim) sector head Abdul Rashid Musa in an e-mail reply to StarBiz.
The Shah Alam plant currently produces the Saga, Satria Neo R3, Exora and Inspira, while the Gen 2 (for export), Persona and Preve are manufactured at the Tanjung Malim plant.”
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An aerial view of Proton’s plant in Tanjung Malim. The siteplant is five
times bigger compared with the carmaker’s facility in Shah Alam.
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He said the Proton cars that were currently produced in Shah Alam would continue to be produced there.
Abdul Rashid said the move would optimise the utilisation of the capacity at the state-of-the-art Tanjung Malim plant in order to achieve economies of scale, which is currently at less than half of its capacity.
“In addition, this will further enhance Proton’s operational effectiveness and efficiency.
“Compared to the Shah Alam plant, which sits on 250 acres of land and with no room for further expansion, the Tanjung Malim plant is five times bigger with 1,280 acres of land,” he said.
On Monday, Perak Chief Minister Datuk Seri Dr Zambry Abdul Kadir Zambry said Proton would move its manufacturing operations in stages from Shah Alam to the Tanjung Malim plant.
This sparked speculation that DRB-Hicom would move the entire operations including Proton’s headquarters to Tanjung Malim.
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