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Thailand's auto production to reach 2.3m units in 2012: TAIA
BANGKOK, August 23 (TNA) - The Thai Automotive Industry Association (TAIA) projected on Tuesday that the country's automobile production could reach 2.3 million units next year, a new high, thanks to several favourable factors.
TAIA President Piengjai Kaewsuwan acknowledged that Thailand has now become a strong and significant automobile production base in Southeast Asia, with its overall vehicle production in 2011 likely to achieve the 1.8 million-unit target despite impacts from a devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan in March.
As Thailand's auto production has kept growing boosted mainly by its firm auto parts industry, rising demand for environmentally-friendly automobiles, known as "eco cars" now, expanding Asian economies and relocations of some new-model projects into the Thai economy, Piengjai said, the country's overall vehicle manufacturing is, therefore, believed to expand in 2012 by over 10-15 per cent, as earlier targeted, to reach at least 2-2.1 million units or even more likely at 2.3 million units instead.
The TAIA chief urged the Thai public and private sectors to join forces in introducing in the near future the country's third auto product champion, namely higher technological "green" auto models, in lieu of pick-up trucks and eco cars, the Kingdom's first and second auto product champions respectively over the past several years, to serve the regional and the world markets and to sustain the strong Thai auto production industry in the long run. (TNA)
TAIA President Piengjai Kaewsuwan acknowledged that Thailand has now become a strong and significant automobile production base in Southeast Asia, with its overall vehicle production in 2011 likely to achieve the 1.8 million-unit target despite impacts from a devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan in March.
As Thailand's auto production has kept growing boosted mainly by its firm auto parts industry, rising demand for environmentally-friendly automobiles, known as "eco cars" now, expanding Asian economies and relocations of some new-model projects into the Thai economy, Piengjai said, the country's overall vehicle manufacturing is, therefore, believed to expand in 2012 by over 10-15 per cent, as earlier targeted, to reach at least 2-2.1 million units or even more likely at 2.3 million units instead.
The TAIA chief urged the Thai public and private sectors to join forces in introducing in the near future the country's third auto product champion, namely higher technological "green" auto models, in lieu of pick-up trucks and eco cars, the Kingdom's first and second auto product champions respectively over the past several years, to serve the regional and the world markets and to sustain the strong Thai auto production industry in the long run. (TNA)
