Nissan’s manufacturing plant in Sunderland, Tyne
& Wear, has capacity to build over 600,000 vehicles, according to Trevor
Mann, executive director of Nissan Motor Manufacturing UK, speaking today.
It is exactly 30 years since
the agreement was signed by the Japanese vehicle builder and the UK Government to
build the plant in the UK which has since become the biggest vehicle
manufacturing plant in the country.
Last
year the plant produced over 500,000 vehicles and has capacity to raise this by
one-fifth.
The
company employs over 6,500 people and this will to rise to over 7,000. The facility in Sunderland builds vehicles and engines.
A
new Nissan model rolls off the production line today. The new vehicle, the
second generation Qashqai, has helped create 500 new jobs at the Japanese car
giant's UK plant in the coming months.
With
this and other new models expected to be awarded to the UK plant, which is one
of the jewels in Nissan’s worldwide manufacturing crown, will edge employment
eventually to near the 8,000 mark.
Some
286,000 Qashqai cars were built last year, with production numbers expected to
be similar in 2014. The car is Nissan's best-selling model in Europe.
Engineers
at the Sunderland plant work closely with their counterparts at Nissan’s
European Technical Centre (NETC) at Cranfield, Bedfordshire.
Eighty
per cent of the output of the Sunderland plant is exported. ∎
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