British car and truck parts supplier Unipart has opened a new automotive fuel systems manufacturing plant in Coventry, England.
The new plant is a second one for Unipart Manufacturing Group in Coventry. This move by the company is aimed at expanding Kautex Unipart (KUL), the joint venture between Unipart and its German partner Kautex Textron, operations.
KUL currently manufactures around 640,000 fuel tanks for automotive manufacturers including Jaguar Land Rover, BMW and Honda every year.
KUL plant general manager Dave Pound said that they have been able to increase their manufacturing capability to meet the needs of their customers today and to be ready for future growth, which could be as much as a million units by 2018.
"To achieve that, we've invested some £6m to integrate new blow mould technology called a Next Generation Fuel System blow moulding machine," Pound added.
"This will enable components such as valves and fuel lines to be placed inside fuel tanks more effectively, ultimately providing reduced vehicle static fuel emissions."
Recently, KLU also opened a new 7,500m2 manufacturing plant, KUL2, to carry out assembly and sequencing operations.
