Perodua, Malaysia’s second national car company, plans to begin construction of a new electronic automatic transmission (EAT) plant in Malaysia in the fourth quarter of 2011.
The new facility will likely be located near its existing car assembly facility in Sungai Choh, Selangor, and is scheduled to be completed in the fourth quarter of 2012. The technology will be licensed from Daihatsu Motor, one of Perodua’s main shareholders.
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The new plant will replace EAT systems currently imported from Daihatsu Motor in Japan and fitted to the Myvi and Alza car models. Eventually, Perodua hopes to export the EATs to other Daihatsu assembly plants in the region.
Perodua expects the relocation and construction of the new plant to cost up to MYR300m but it will to recover this investment through lower costs compared with the imported units.
Separately, Perodua managing director Datuk Aminar Rashid Salleh said his company will resume full production in July. He added that with the help of Daihatsu Motor, his company is making good progress in finding alternative sources of parts after a number of suppliers in Japan were hit by the earthquake and tsunami in March.
He said production will be down by 11% on average in the second quarter and that vehicle inventories had been only “slightly” affected.
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