On Wednesday (21/11/2022) the Italian automotive company PT Piaggio Indonesia officially has a motorcycle factory in Cikarang, West Java. With the inauguration of the Minister of Industry audience, Agus Gumiwang Kartasasmita and Michele Colaninno, Chief Executive of Product and Global Strategy of the Piaggio Group. As quoted from the Antara news agency, the Piaggio Group factory in Indonesia begins with a groundbreaking or groundbreaking once a year. "Today's inauguration is very monumental, starting from the laying of the first stone which I did on November 9, 2021, and today we witness that production facilities have started their commercial operations with an initial production capacity of 10,000 units per year," said Agus Gumiwang Kartasasmita, Minister of Industry at the inauguration. the Piaggio factory. The Minister of Industry also appreciated the new investment, opening jobs, increasing production of two-wheeled vehicles, and increasing domestic added value by opening the new factory. The hope is to become a new milestone in increasing cooperation between Indonesia and Italy. According to him, PT Piaggio Indonesia's factory operations are an example of an industrial condition that is currently optimal and continues to grow.
The Minister of Industry's request to the Piaggio Group is to increase the use of local components, especially Small and Medium Industry (IKM) production components and support SMI components to enter Piaggio's global supply chain. Furthermore, the Minister of Industry supports Piaggio Indonesia to continue to increase its production capacity, increase the introduction of domestic production vehicle line-ups, so that in the end this will make Indonesia a production base and an export base. Michele Colaninno, Chief Executive of Product and Global Strategy of the Piaggio Group, said that the opening of the Piaggio Indonesia factory was one of the key slogans in continuing the visit of the Piaggio Group in minimizing the attention aimed at customers around the world and also in Asia. "Like all Piaggio Group manufacturing facilities, the new factory meets the Piaggio Global Factory Standards applied worldwide," said Michele Colaninno.
