INDUSTRY FOCUS
During this time, it has invested heavily
in its UK vehicle manufacturing facilities at Castle Bromwich, Halewood and Solihull to support the introduction of new vehicles, and has doubled investment in its engine plant in the UK to almost £1 billion, creating several hundred new jobs. Significant progress has also been made
in building an international manufacturing footprint. JLR continues to evaluate opportunities, primarily in markets with strong growth potential and customer demand. The company has had a local assembly
presence in India since 2011. In 2014, it opened a joint venture in China and began construction of a local manufacturing plant in Brazil. The partnership between JLR and
Chery Automobile Company is the first British-Chinese automotive joint venture. Located in Changshu, north of Shanghai, the facility represents a total investment of RMB10.9 billion (around £1 billion). The Range Rover Evoque and the Land Rover Discovery Sport are produced in Changshu for customers in China. The Brazil plant is JLR’s first wholly
owned local manufacturing facility, and the company has blazed a trail by being the first British carmaker to build such a facility in Brazil. Located in the state of Rio de Janeiro, it represents an investment of R$750 million (£240 million), and was opened earlier this year. JLR also has a presence in mainland
Europe. In 2015, it confirmed it would build a new manufacturing plant in the city of Nitra, in western Slovakia. The £1 billion plant will have an annual capacity of 150,000 vehicles, and the first cars are expected in late 2018. Earlier this year, a manufacturing partnership was agreed with Magna Steyr, an operating unit of Magna International, to build vehicles in Graz, Austria. In November, JLR attracted media
headlines in the UK when it outlined the possibility of manufacturing electric cars at a site in Coventry provided that the government made the necessary investment in infrastructure. This could see 10,000 new jobs created in the West Midlands and would double JLR’s output from 500,000 to one million cars a year. Chief executive Dr Ralf Speth put forward
the plans for the 60-acre site, which include building research facilities and test centres, with a longer-term plan of creating a battery manufacturing plant on a new site, at a meeting of political and car industry leaders. He said that an expansion in the Midlands would require massive improvements to local infrastructure, including the equivalent of four power stations in generating capacity.
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