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French MRO Revima to build landing gear facility in Chonburi

The French landing gear MRO provider has started construction of a new facility in Chonburi, Thailand

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8 months ago

February 14, 2019

Aishwarya Gupta

The facility will focus on Airbus A320, Boeing 737 and ATR family landing gears. It will be equipped with the latest state-of-the-art machines and will include all necessary special processes for full in-house repair & overhaul of landing gears.

The French landing gear MRO provider has started construction of a new facility in Chonburi, Thailand.

The 12000 m² facility will employ up to 300 employees, and represents an investment of over 30 MUSD.

“We found Thailand to be a great choice due to its central location in Asia, its infrastructure, ease of doing business and workforce quality. Thailand will become our regional customer support hub for Asia-Pacific. Our objective is to deliver quality and customer service of the highest standards in the region to support our customers’ operations. We aim to have our facility fully certified and ready to ship to our customers by the first quarter of 2020.”

Olivier Legrand, President & CEO of Revima

Digitally connected from its machines to its technical documentation, warehouses, monitoring and customer communication systems, it will also be environmentally friendly, with zero rejection waste water management systems and advanced fire detection and suppression technology.

Business

One million people register on first day of Chim-Shop-Chai program

10 million persons will be able to register themselves to receive a 1,000 baht allowance each in the government’s electronic money mobile application

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4 weeks ago

September 26, 2019

Headline Editor

A total of a million people have registered to join the government’s Chim-Shop-Chai (Taste-Shop-Spend) program, under which each of them will receive a 1,000 baht giveaway to be spent between September 27^th and November 30^th,on the first day.

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Business

16 countries agree to conclude RCEP talks by end of this month

The final round of RCEP talks in Danang, Vietnam, is scheduled from September 19 to September 27 for senior officials to prepare various agenda pertaining to goods, services and investments

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1 month ago

September 9, 2019

National News Bureau of Thailand

BANGKOK, 9 September 2019(NNT)-The 51st ASEAN Economic Ministers Meeting has agreed that the final round of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) talks in Vietnam should reach their conclusion by the end of this month.

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Business

Thailand to Produce 2.5 Million Vehicles in 2030

Today there are about 15 million vehicles in Thailand and the Energy Ministry expects to see 1.2 million BEVs and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles within 2036.

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2 months ago

September 3, 2019

Boris Sullivan

The Thailand Automotive Institute expects the country will produce 2.5 million vehicles in 2030 and about 200,000 of them will be battery electric vehicles (BEVs).

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