The car body component plant of THACO Industries, a member of Truong Hai Group, is planning to export more than 25,000 sets of KIA Carnival boots to Malaysia between 2022 and 2026.
Inside the car body component plant of THACO Industries. (Source: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – The car body componentplant of THACO Industries, a member of Truong Hai Group, is planning to exportmore than 25,000 sets of KIA Carnival boots to Malaysia between 2022 and 2026.
Recently, it exported more than 700 similarsets to this market, marking a stride in the factory’s development as the KIACarnival boot is its first product to be sold to a foreign market, THACO said.
The boots are manufactured on a modern line transferred from theRepublic of Korea’s KIA Group - one of the world’s leading automakers.
Apart from the boots, the plant also produces andsupplies many other car body parts like front doors, rear doors, and hoods fordifferent series, including KIA Cerato, KIA Soluto, KIA Seltos, KIA Carnival, andMAZDA 3 All New, MAZDA CX-5 and MAZDA CX-8.
THACO noted in the time ahead, its plant will be equipped with amore automated and digitalised production line, step up research anddevelopment to diversify products, boost component supply for domestic car manufacturers,and partner with trading companies to increase exports to other ASEANcountries, thus helping realise the goal of becoming the leading car bodycomponent producer in Vietnam./.
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Inside the car body component plant of THACO Industries. (Source: VNA) 
