Jaguar Land Rover opens its first overseas manufacturing plant
Jaguar Land Rover opens its first overseas manufacturing plant
Jaguar Land Rover opens its first overseas manufacturing plant
Jaguar Land Rover has opened its first overseas manufacturing facility in China. The award-winning Range Rover Evoque will be the first model to be built in a joint venture with Chinese auto company Chery Automobile Company Ltd worth RMB 10.9 billion. This is in fact the first Chinese-British automotive joint venture.
The 400,000 square-metres plant, is located in the Changshu Economic Development Zone north of Shanghai.
They expect to build three Jaguar Land Rover models with total production capacity of 130,000 units a year by 2016 (for the Chinese market only). The facility features highly-automated press shops – including cutting-edge aluminium and steel technologies – along with a steel body shop comprising 306 robots, an energy-efficient paint shop and an ergonomically-friendly final assembly line.
Some interesting information:
- Jaguar Land Rover first established a presence in China just over a decade ago.
- China is Jaguar Land Rover’s single largest market with over 100,000 vehicles sold in the last fiscal year
- In addition to China, Jaguar Land Rover has confirmed plans to create a local manufacturing facility in Brazil and has a local assembly facility in Pune, India.
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