SHAH ALAM: UMW Holdings Bhd will double the company’s manufacturing capacity for Toyota cars following the completion of the new Bukit Raja factory in 2019.
The new plant will start off with a production capacity of 50,000 cars per year, and will churn up to 100,000 cars at maximum capacity.
This will be on top of the company’s existing 49-year-old plant, which has a capacity of 75,000 cars a year.
Speaking after UMW’s AGM on Thursday, president and group chief executive officer Badrul Feisal Abdul Rahim said the new plant would enable the company to make more varieties of passenger cars.
“There will be four Toyota facelift models coming up in the second half of the year,” he said.
The company has a sales target of 70,000 units of Toyota cars and 202,000 units of Perodua cars this year. UMW expects the automotive industry to recover this year, although it will continue to be a challenging one.
Meanwhile, UMW will see the production of its first fan case for Rolls-Royce aircraft engines by the end of the year.
The company has a 30-year contract to produce fan casing for Rolls-Royce engines, namely for the Trent 1000 engine in B-787 Dreamliner passenger aircraft as well as the Trent 7000 engine for the Airbus A30 Neo.
