Thonburi Automotive Assembly Plant
| Thonburi Automotive Assembly Plant Co., Ltd. บริษัท ธนบุรี ประกอบ รถยนต์ จำกัด |
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| legal form | Limited Company |
| founding | 1941 (unofficial) 1979 (official) |
| Seat | Thonburi , Thailand |
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Vehicle assembly chassis manufacturer |
| Website | www.taap.in.th |
The Thonburi Automotive Assembly Plant Co., Ltd. , or TAAP for short , is a vehicle assembly company based in Thonburi , Thailand . TAAP is part of the Thonburi Phanich Group.
history
TAAP is a company founded in 1941 by Lek Wiriyaphan and his wife Prapai as part of the vehicle and electrical equipment importer Thonburi Phanich Group for the assembly of motor vehicles of the German brand Mercedes-Benz . It is a company certified by Daimler AG that currently assembles up to one million units a year. The official company headquarters is in Thonburi , with further assembly plants in Yotse , Lumphini and Samut Prakan . There is also a plant in Bangkok that produces chassis for buses . The largest shareholder is the Indian Tata Motors with a 70 percent stake .
Although the company was founded in the early 1940s and the German brand could look back on more than fifty years of history in Thailand, it was not until 1957 that Mercedes-Benz AG granted approval for the assembly and sale of company cars , automobiles and commercial vehicles . The company was founded at the time of World War II , when the Thai armed forces were planning to build a large number of military trucks to be able to better defend themselves against aggressors. It was not until 1961, after the company was officially founded, that work began to assemble buses. From 1997 to 2002 the Mercedes-Benz 18-188 and from 2002 to 2006 also the Mercedes-Benz 91-1142 were assembled for the local market. The current model that rolls off the production line in Yotse is the Mercedes-Benz O 500 RS .
In 1979 it was decided to also build automobiles for the domestic market. After five years of building a new plant at the Samut Prakan site, the first Mercedes-Benz 190E were produced.
In 1987 the company was finally able to build a training center for automotive technology in cooperation with the German Society for Technical Cooperation , the King Mongkut Institute of Technology and the Campus Graduate School , which is still one of the most modern facilities of the German brand in Southeast Asia.
After assembly of the previously popular Mercedes model from the compact class has been completed, the Mercedes-Benz C has also been rolling off the assembly line since 1994 and the Mercedes-Benz E and Mercedes-Benz S-Class since 1996 . The Mercedes-Benz A-Class was added later. Since January 1999, the sales of the vehicles has been taken over by the Mercedes-Benz (Thailand) Ltd. trading subsidiary founded by DaimlerChrysler .
The Lumphini plant was built in 2004 in a joint venture with the Hyundai Motor Company and began work in spring 2005. The Hyundai Sonata has been built here ever since . The Tata Xenon and the Hyundai Coupé sports car followed in 2006 .
In 2017, Tata moved its commercial vehicle production from TAAP to BGAC .
Web links
- Official website of the Thonburi Group
- Official website of Thonburi Automotive Assembly Plant Co., Ltd.
Individual evidence
- ↑ About. In: Muang Boran Museum. Retrieved May 14, 2019 .
- ↑ Lek Viriyaphan | Thailand Travel Guide. April 17, 2019, Retrieved May 30, 2019 (American English).
- ^ Tony Pugliese: Tata Motors signs new assembly deal in Thailand. In: just-auto.com. May 16, 2017, accessed January 4, 2018 .