Trade Resources Company News JLR Is Aiming to Build a GBP100m NAIC in Warwick,For Advanced Research and Development

JLR Is Aiming to Build a GBP100m NAIC in Warwick,For Advanced Research and Development

British luxury car manufacturer Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) is planning to establish a GBP100m National Automotive Innovation Campus (NAIC) in Warwick, for advanced research and development in the UK.

Jaguar Land Rover to Establish Gbp100m R&D Plant in UK

Construction of the new research center will begin September 2014 at the University of Warwick.

JLR will lead the project with £50m investment along with Tata Motors European Technical Centre, Warwick Manufacturing Group (WMG) and the UK Government's Higher Education Funding Council England.

NAIC will create a large-scale collaborative research environment, where researchers and engineers from JLR will collaboratively work with academics from the UK's leading universities.

It will bring academics from the UK's leading universities together with researchers and engineers from Jaguar Land Rover and its supply chain, in a single, multi-purpose, state-of-the-art research facility.

The center will feature engineering workshops and laboratories, advanced powertrain facilities and the latest advanced design, visualization and rapid prototyping technologies, where approximately 1,000 academics, researchers, technologists and engineers will work.

This project will be co-ordinated by JLR research and technology director Wolfgang Epple.

Epple said that their future sales success, the success of their global business and the UK economy lies in the engineering and innovation that will take place in NAIC.

"Creating a new national focus for automotive research and consolidating Jaguar Land Rover's growing research and advanced engineering operations in one centre offers us huge potential," Epple added.

"With a critical mass of research capability, we will put the UK at the very centre of the global automotive industry -- with the NAIC at its hub."

The development of the NAIC project builds on Jaguar Land Rover's long-standing relationship with WMG at the University of Warwick. Currently, nearly 200 Jaguar Land Rover researchers and engineers are based at WMG, collaborating with university experts on a number of projects.

The company expects to expand its advanced research team to 500 people by by the time the NAIC opens in 2016.

Image: Construction of the NAIC research center will start from September 2014 at the University of Warwick. Photo courtesy: Tata Sons Limited.

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