Honda plant rolls out 600,00 unit at Pegoh plant

MELAKA: Honda Malaysia Sdn Bhd’s plant here produced its 600,000th unit in a span of 14 years, said managing director/ chief executive officer Katsuto Hayashi.

Hayashi said the addition of the second production line in 2014 has enabled Honda Malaysia to grow at an accelerated rate.

“We achieved 300,000 units in just three years as compared to 11 years taken earlier to reach the first 300,000 units,” he said at the ‘600,000 Units Production Ceremony’ in Pegoh yesterday.

Honda Malaysia has two production lines at this plant.

The number one line started operations in 2003 and the number two line in 2014.

The 600,000th vehicle that rolled out was a ‘ New City’, Honda’s B-segment model.

With a total area of 202,506 sq m, the Pegoh plant has flexible production capacity of 50,000 cars per annum at line one and 100,000 cars per annum at line two.

“With this readily- available facility here, Honda Malaysia has the spare capacity to fulfill bookings from customers as well as produce the best products for Malaysians,” he said.

Currently, Honda has seven models -- the Accord, City, Civic, CR-V, Jazz, HR-V and BR-V.

They are locally assembled at the Pegoh plant.

Honda Malaysia also celebrated the sales of its 100,000th unit for its current financial year ( Honda Global’s financial year: April 1, 2016 – March 31, 2017) at the same event here.

Honda Motor Co Ltd’s Executive Vice President/ Representative Director, Seiji Kuraishi, said HondaMalaysiacurrentlytooktop spot as the country that achieved the highest market share among Honda car operations globally for the first 2 months of 2017.

Last year, Honda Malaysia achieved the second highest market share among Honda’s global operations in 2016, with 91,830 vehicles sold, and it became the first non-national marque to achieve second position in overall Malaysia’s 2016 Total Industry Volume. — Bernama