Proton officially held the ground-breaking ceremony yesterday at their Tanjung Malim plant as a start for its RM200 million expansion. The new addition to the plant will be a stamping facility to complement the existing lines as well as increase the efforts in localisation for the current and future offerings from Proton.

According to Proton's CEO, Dr Li Chunrong, "While we are happy with our progress so far, Proton must continue to look to the future. This new addition is part of our strategy to ensure that we can grow continuously as well as increase our model footprint when we have to. This means having the ability to build more variants but more importantly to be able to build them to the highest standards as well as to incorporate new technology."

"We are very clear about direction and growth for Proton. While Malaysia will always be our primary market, we must be able to compete beyond our shores. This facility is one small part of that journey. It is especially important for us because it means we can do far more localisation going forward. This will have a spill-over effect which will see us engaging with more vendors and further growing the local automotive ecosystem", added Dr Li.