German automaker Audi has inaugurated its new production facility in Münchsmünster, Bavaria, Germany.
The company is consistently expanding its main plant in Ingolstadt, Germany.
Volkswagen will produce body parts and suspension components at this Münchsmünster plant with the application of new technologies.
The luxury carmaker's competence center in the Münchsmünster Industrial Park has been established for the production of structural car body parts made of die-cast aluminum, hot and cold pressed parts and suspension components.
Audi plans to gradually increase the plant's production volumes. By 2016, about 800 employees will work at the Münchsmünster plant along with 250 new recruits.
Audi AG production management board member Frank Dreves said that with the components that they manufacture here, they will intensify their consistent application of lightweight construction and will develop Münchsmünster into an important high-technology center.
"With the new production methods we are using here, we are pushing the limits of technical feasibility and extending our lead over the competition," Dreves added.
The construction of the plant, which is located in Münchsmünster Industrial Park, commenced in summer 2012.
The manufacturing of suspension components and structural parts and the aluminum die-casting are now going into pre-series operation.
Image: Audi has opened new production facility in Münchsmünster, Germany. Photo: courtesy of Volkswagen AG.
