Thanh Cong Group inaugurates Skoda automobile factory in Vietnam

Investment completed within 25 months, Thanh Cong Viet Hung Automobile Factory (TCVH) has a total area of ​​36.5 hectares; capacity of 120,000 vehicles/year. The Welding, Painting and Finishing Assembly lines are invested in modern, highly automated, in accordance with strict international standards and those of Skoda Auto globally.

The intelligent robot system is integrated into every stage of each factory, helping to optimize accuracy, improve efficiency and ensure the highest product quality, providing the market with high-quality, energy-saving and environmentally friendly vehicles. The factory is also designed as a safe, civilized and friendly workplace for the health of workers.

On March 26, TCVH factory officially launched the first car, Skoda Kushaq, a model certified by Skoda to meet global quality standards, ready to enter commercial production and supply to the market in the second quarter of 2025. This is the next major result in the cooperation between TC Group and Skoda Auto - a 130-year-old European car brand from the Czech Republic, with the goal of bringing to Vietnamese consumers European-quality cars at reasonable prices. TC Group expects the first Skoda car factory in Southeast Asia to be the center for supplying Skoda cars to the regional market.

Speaking at the event, Mr. Nguyen Anh Tuan - Chairman of the Board of Directors of Thanh Cong Group said: "Thanh Cong Viet Hung Automobile Factory Project is a large-scale invested factory belonging to Thanh Cong Viet Hung Automobile and Supporting Industry Complex. Currently, Thanh Cong Group has planned and invested in many items, ready to expand cooperation in European automobile technology industry, to improve production capacity, technological capacity, towards diversifying product types from green vehicles, electric vehicles, internal combustion engine vehicles, special vehicles, and specialized vehicles in the future".

Mr. Pham Duc An, Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee and Chairman of the People's Committee of Quang Ninh Province, commented: "Thanh Cong Viet Hung Automobile Factory is a key project, a driving force for the development of Quang Ninh in the coming years. In the future, the factory will contribute to increasing budget revenue, creating jobs and training high-quality human resources for the locality."

Mr. Klaus Zellmer, CEO of Skoda Auto shared: “We are very pleased to be here today to witness the inauguration of the Thanh Cong Viet Hung automobile factory invested by TC Group. The factory's operation and the production of the first car, the Skoda Kushaq, marks an important milestone in the cooperation between TC Group and Skoda in expanding the European car market in Vietnam and spreading the Skoda brand in the ASEAN region. We expect this cooperation to bring mutual success to both Skoda and TC Group. I look forward to seeing the first standard quality Škoda cars coming out of the Thanh Cong Viet Hung automobile factory distributed to customers”.

In addition to completing the investment in the Skoda automobile manufacturing and assembly plant at Thanh Cong Viet Hung Automobile and Supporting Industry Complex on a total area of ​​301 hectares, Thanh Cong Group has also been investing heavily in infrastructure and supporting items such as Logistic warehouse; test track; assembly station; fuel station, welding and stamping factory, auto supporting equipment manufacturing factories... to create a strong and reliable infrastructure to attract investors to localize auto components, participate in the supply chain of high-quality auto components for the Vietnamese and international markets. TC Group's orientation ensures development according to the general direction of the Government and realizes the vision of a large-scale, modern auto industrial complex of Quang Ninh and Vietnam.

The inauguration of the TCVH factory is one of the steps demonstrating TC Group's commitment to expanding the variety of European cars manufactured and assembled in Vietnam, with the Skoda Kushaq being the first car in the list. The high-quality products manufactured from the factory will contribute to providing the market with safe, powerful cars at reasonable prices, serving the needs of domestic and regional customers.

This project also contributes and demonstrates the responsibility of the leading enterprise in the automobile industry in Vietnam for the development of the automobile industry of the whole country; Demonstrates the responsibility of the enterprise for the socio-economic development of the localities. In addition, this project also represents international cooperation, not only between the two enterprises of the two countries but also contributes to promoting the cooperative relationship between Vietnam - Representative of Southeast Asian countries and the Czech Republic - Representative of the European Union with a foundation of mechanical and high-tech industry.

Not stopping at cooperating and developing a few product lines of a brand, with the continued investment in Phase 2 of the Project and other component projects such as stamping factory, welding factory, engine factory and auxiliary factories in the coming years, Thanh Cong Viet Hung Automobile and Auxiliary Industrial Complex will become a complete automobile manufacturing complex with high production capacity, creating many jobs, contributing greatly to the development of Quang Ninh province in particular and Vietnam's economy in general.

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