Progoti Industries starts assembling Pajero
Saturday, 4 December 2010
CHITTAGONG, Dec 3 (BSS): Progoti Industries Limited (PIL), the lone state-run automobiles assembling industry of the country, has started assembling Mitsubishi's most modern Pajero jeep in Bangladesh.
PIL has already completed assembling of two jeeps in its own plant, Chittagong on experimental basis and is likely to go for commercial production soon.
As part of five-year agreement, signed between Managing Director of PIL Engineer Jahir Uddin Chowdhury and Corporate General Manager of Mitsubishi's Asia and ASEAN offices Zenichiro Nichina, PIL started assembling the Mitsubishi Jeep in Bangladesh.
The authority of Mitsubishi has also expressed their enthusiasm to assist in setting up of a plant in Bangladesh for manufacturing spare parts of Mitsubishi Jeep.
With this achievement of the state-owned industry, the customers in future will have the scope to buy a worldwide popular 'Pajero Sports Jeep' at around Tk 6.5 million whereas its present imported price is Tk 12.0 million.
Managing Director (MD) of PIL Engineer Jahir Uddin Chowdhury told the news agency that a four-member engineers team of Mitsubishi Corporation (MC) had imparted training to Bangladeshi motor workers on assembling the sports car, jeep from October 18 to November 5 this year.
Mr Chowdhury also said that they had successfully assembled two pajero jeeps and would assemble 10 more between January and March next year.
"We will start large scale commercial production after successfully selling these 10 jeeps in the Bangladesh market, he said adding that after assembling a jeep here, it would be available at only Tk 6.0 million though its present market price is Tk 12.0 million.
Asked about its quality, Chowdhury said the MC authority is determined to maintain their standard and practically assessed the quality of PIL three times through sample tests before work orders.
"No internationally reputed company wants to undermine the quality of its products wherever it is assembled", the MD asserted.
Mitsubishi engineers after visiting the PIL in July, 2009, expressed satisfaction over its overall condition and working atmosphere.
A four-member Bangladesh delegates from PIL including its MD visited Mitsubishi Pajero Manufacturing industry in Thailand on September 9,last year and interacted in details on different technical and infrastructure aspects at PIL.
Reciprocally, another four-member Mitsubishi delegates led by its Asia Region manger Kajuhidi Ogata also visited the plant of PIL.
PIL has already completed assembling of two jeeps in its own plant, Chittagong on experimental basis and is likely to go for commercial production soon.
As part of five-year agreement, signed between Managing Director of PIL Engineer Jahir Uddin Chowdhury and Corporate General Manager of Mitsubishi's Asia and ASEAN offices Zenichiro Nichina, PIL started assembling the Mitsubishi Jeep in Bangladesh.
The authority of Mitsubishi has also expressed their enthusiasm to assist in setting up of a plant in Bangladesh for manufacturing spare parts of Mitsubishi Jeep.
With this achievement of the state-owned industry, the customers in future will have the scope to buy a worldwide popular 'Pajero Sports Jeep' at around Tk 6.5 million whereas its present imported price is Tk 12.0 million.
Managing Director (MD) of PIL Engineer Jahir Uddin Chowdhury told the news agency that a four-member engineers team of Mitsubishi Corporation (MC) had imparted training to Bangladeshi motor workers on assembling the sports car, jeep from October 18 to November 5 this year.
Mr Chowdhury also said that they had successfully assembled two pajero jeeps and would assemble 10 more between January and March next year.
"We will start large scale commercial production after successfully selling these 10 jeeps in the Bangladesh market, he said adding that after assembling a jeep here, it would be available at only Tk 6.0 million though its present market price is Tk 12.0 million.
Asked about its quality, Chowdhury said the MC authority is determined to maintain their standard and practically assessed the quality of PIL three times through sample tests before work orders.
"No internationally reputed company wants to undermine the quality of its products wherever it is assembled", the MD asserted.
Mitsubishi engineers after visiting the PIL in July, 2009, expressed satisfaction over its overall condition and working atmosphere.
A four-member Bangladesh delegates from PIL including its MD visited Mitsubishi Pajero Manufacturing industry in Thailand on September 9,last year and interacted in details on different technical and infrastructure aspects at PIL.
Reciprocally, another four-member Mitsubishi delegates led by its Asia Region manger Kajuhidi Ogata also visited the plant of PIL.