Robert Bosch has opened a new THB3.2bn (US$98.5m) automotive components manufacturing facility in Thailand’s Rayong province.
The plant, occupying a 10,000 sq m plot in the Hemaraj Eastern Seaboard Industrial Estate, at full swing will produce a broad range of powertrain products including engine parts, electric and CNG drives, and fuel cells for customers in Thailand and for export.
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The factory’s main product will be fuel injection systems for petrol and diesel engines for a broad range of applications including passenger and commercial vehicles, motorcycles, snowmobiles and marine engines.
Other facilities at the plant will include a knock sensor production line and production of connectors and tooling.
Bosch already has an automotive equipment plant in Rayong’s Amata City Industrial Estate which makes ABS braking systems and parts, diesel common rail systems, fuel injectors and wiper systems.
Bosch also has packaging machinery and power tools manufacturing operations in Thailand, which account for roughly 50% of its revenues there, but this proportion is expected to shrink rapidly in the coming years as automotive production increases.
