Eastern automaker Suzuki has made up our minds to close down its Thai meeting plant by way of the top of 2025 as part of its world manufacturing restructuring plan.
Suzuki is the second one Eastern automaker to finish native manufacturing inside a month – Subaru previous introduced it’s going to close down its Thai plant by way of the top of 2024 and depend only on imports.
In step with a statement from Suzuki Motor (Thailand) Co Ltd, the distributor of Suzuki vehicles within the Kingdom, manufacturing at its Rayong plant will prevent by way of the top of 2025.
“Following the announcement of the eco-car challenge by way of the Thai executive in 2007, Suzuki carried out for the challenge and established SMT in 2011, after receiving approval of the challenge. The auto plant began its manufacturing in 2012, and produced up to 60,000 devices yearly together with exports,” the corporate said.
“In the meantime, at some stage in selling carbon neutrality and electrification globally, Suzuki were taking into account optimizing world manufacturing websites throughout the crew. In consequence, we got here to a choice to near the SMT plant by way of the top of 2025,” it added.
In a similar fashion to Subaru, Suzuki Motor (Thailand) said that it’s going to handle gross sales and after-sales operations in Thailand by way of uploading merchandise, together with hybrid electrical cars, from different Suzuki amenities in ASEAN, Japan and India.
Suzuki’s Rayong plant these days produces the Swift, Ciaz and Celerio, with manufacturing achieving 7,579 devices in FY 2023.
The corporate additionally said it’s going to introduce “electrified fashions together with HEVs” to its product lineup with a view to “give a contribution to attaining carbon neutrality objectives promoted by way of the Thai executive”.
In FY2023, Suzuki bought over 12,000 cars in Thailand comprising of the next: Swift (5,570 devices), Celerio (2,497), Ciaz (444), Lift (2,433), Ertiga (388) and XL7 (769).
Evaluation of SMT Meeting Plant
Established order: August 2011
Get started of manufacturing: March 2012
Location: Pluakdaeng, Rayong Province
Manufacturing fashions: Swift, Ciaz, Celerio
Manufacturing consequence (FY2023): 7,579 devices
Gross sales consequence (FY2023): 10,807 devices (home) and 1,272 devices (export)

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