Proton plans to undertake a study on operating with just one plant in Malaysia as it seeks to improve efficiency.
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The Business Times reported that the company is also planning to increase exports as it seeks to improve efficiency.
The newspaper noted that the company now has two vehicle assembly plants: a plant in Shah Alam, Selangor, and a facility in Tanjung Malim, Perak.
“We will rationalise our operations. We will undertake a study to see if there is a need to operate two plants in Malaysia, or just one,” chairman Datuk Nadzmi Mohd Salleh told Business Times in an interview.
The report said Proton wants to boost its growth by selling more cars abroad. It expects Indonesia to be its biggest market for the Exora.
However, it currently sells less than 40,000 vehicles a year overseas, less than half of what it sells in Malaysia.
