Proton City - Tanjong Malim, Perak

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Proton City
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Proton City tagged as “City of the Future”, is a new township with industrial, commercial and residential activities spread over 4,000 acres (16 km²). It is located about 5 km north of Tanjung Malim, a town in Perak, Malaysia, and houses the state-of-the-art RM1.8 billion Proton car assembly plant.

To be fully developed by 2020, Proton City aims to be home to Malaysia’s automobile industry. Undertaken by Proton City Development Corp Sdn Bhd, a joint venture between DRB-Hicom Bhd and Proton Bhd, it started in 1996 with an initial investment of RM2.5 billion, beginning with the construction of the Proton plant. The Proton plant has a workforce of more than 2,000 and most of them are expected to live in the area. When Proton City is fully developed, it would have a population of about 240,000.

The first settlement in the area - 252 units of apartments - were formally handed over to the buyers recently. These apartments have common facilities that include car and motorcycle parking bays, children’s playground, BBQ area, car wash areas, mosque and a nursery/kindergarten on the ground floor of each block and a multipurpose hall. Parcels 19 and 20 when completed in 2007 will have 1,091 apartments, 336 units of single- and double-storey terrace houses, 86 semi-detached houses, 37 bungalows and 36 shop-offices.

Proton City is also expected to be home to students and staff of the Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris (UPSI), which a few years ago was known as Sultan Idris Teachers’ College, one of the country’s oldest teachers’ training institutions. UPSI, occupying 800 acres (3.2 km²) within Proton City, is expected to have a student population of 20,000 within four years.

The next phase of development at Proton City is the industrial component, which will see the construction of 81 factory lots for the national car’s vendors. Other public amenities such as schools, mosque, park, recreational club and man-made wetlands of 24 acres (97,000 m²) with a large lake, water storage towers, air quality control station, fire station and power station will also be built in the coming months.

Modern technology will be put to full use, with a command centre that will monitor all smart home systems. There will be intelligent traffic control, telemedicine, e-commerce and other “k-society” amenities and services integrated into living within Proton City.

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Road to Proton City

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Photos by Zairi of flickr.com
Location: Proton's Factory, Tanjung Malim





Road to Proton City



Double Storeys Houses

[Very Controversial]

Never heard of this place before.

[Vince]

Ghost-town...but nice.

[nazrey]

PROTON CITY

[TYW]

wow!!! nice place! first time seeing it!

so what is the latest development there?

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[myf282828]

I heard from my friend that Proton has over stock of 250,000 units of new produced cars of various models. Proton can actually stop production for at least one year and still have enough supply. If this is going to happen, will this Proton-city be a ghost town??

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Proton to make 50,000 cars at Tg Malim in FY07
By Tamimi Omar, 28 Jul 2006 2:07 PM
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Proton Holdings Bhd will maintain its target of producing between 40,000 and 50,000 cars at its Tanjung Malim plant for its financial year (FY) ending March 31, 2007 despite declining sales.

Its manufacturing director Datuk Kamarulzaman Darus believes that the production volume would be justified by the continued demand for Proton cars. The Tanjung Malim plant makes GEN.2, Savvy and Satria Neo.

He added that Proton is also counting on demand from first-time buyers of cars.

“We will produce between 40,000 cars and 50,000 cars (at Tanjung Malim) this financial year from about 40,000 cars in FY06 despite the tougher car market environment,” Kamarulzaman told reporters after delivering 50 new Satria Neo cars to its customers in Tanjung Malim on July 27.

He said the Tanjung Malim plant has a maximum capacity of 150,000 units on double shifts.

On the demand for Neo, he said orders have exceeded 2,000 units since its launch in June with over 1,000 cars delivered to its customers.

Kamarulzaman said Proton would launch a new model next year but did not elaborate.

He said the market is sluggish as customers are wary after the announcement of the National Automotive Policy and the new free trade agreement with Japan.

“Customers want to see if car prices might actually drop before wanting to buy new cars,” he said.

On Proton’s vendor consolidation programme, Kamarulzaman said the national car company is on track to reduce its vendors to no more than 50 from 275 vendors currently.

[jeeshyan]

Cool! It is very nice... Thank you...

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Road to Proton City
Photos by Zairi of flickr.com

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Road to Proton City
Photos by Zairi of flickr.com

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Proton City
Photos by Zairi of flickr.com

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Proton City
Photos by Zairi of flickr.com





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[jlshyang]

It's nice but it's a ghost town.....

[forrestcat]

At least the town's good facilities would benefit students from Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris.Hope the town seek other economic opportunities besides the ailing car industry.