US carmaker Ford's European subsidiary Ford of Europe is planning to more than triple its production of EcoBoost petrol engine powered cars to about 480,000 by 2015 per year from 141,000 in 2011. The company's plans follow the beginning ...
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P T Honda Prospect Motor (HPM), Honda's joint venture firm in Indonesia, has started construction of its new IDR3.1 trillion ($328m) automobile production plant in Karawang Industrial Park in a suburb of Jakarta. The new automobile plant, ...
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German luxury carmaker Audi is planning to invest about $2bn to build a new manufacturing plant for sport utility vehicles in Mexico. The Mexican plant, which is expected to start operaton in 2016, will initially have capacity for ...
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Volkswagen and its Chinese joint-venture partner SAIC Motor have signed a contract to build a new EUR170m vehicle manufacturing plant in Urumqi, Western China. According to the company the new plant will be capable of producing 50,000 ...
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US carmaker general Motors has opted to manufacture the next version of the Opel Astra model at its Ellesmere Port facility in UK, rather than in Germany. To further support the deal, the US carmaker will stop the production of Astra in ...
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Toyota Industries (TICO) is planning to invest $55.9m (JPY 4.6bn) to build a new lift truck manufacturing plant Sao Paulo, Brazil. The new facility, which is expected to start operations by 2013, will be the manufacturing division of the ...
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Japanese automobile manufacturer Suzuki Motor is planning to build a new assembly plant in Thilawa District of Yangon, Myanmar. Operations are expected to start in 2015 at the new plant, which will have an annual production capacity of ...
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South Korean automaker Hyundai Motor has broken ground on a commercial vehicle plant in Ziyang, China. The plant named, Sichuan Hyundai Motor, is a 50-50 joint venture (JV) between Hyundai and China's Sichuan Nanjun Automobile Group. ...
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Swedish car maker Volvo Car is planning to build a $247m car plant in Brazil and build about 15,000-20,000 cars annually in the country. The final decision depends on Brazil's approval of the final details about auto-industry rules that ...
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Shanghai GM, a joint venture between US carmaker General Motors (GM) and China based Shanghai Automotive Industry (SAIC), has begun construction on a new $1.1bn (CNY7bn) manufacturing facility in Wuhan city, Hubei. The new plant will ...
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US based automotive systems supplier Inteva Products has opened a new $10m closure systems and motors manufacturing facility in Pune, India. The new 72,000sq ft facility will produce non-plastic parts such as door latches, window ...
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Japanese carmaker Nissan is considering to build new vehicle manufacturing facilities in Mexico and the US to meet demand in both countries. Mexico's largest automaker has already commenced construction on $2bn facility in central state ...
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Indian vehicle manufacturer Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M) is planning for an alternative location for its vehicle manufacturing plant, other than its original plan of Pune in Maharastra state of India. For the new plant, the company will ...
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Midwest Exchange Enterprises has announced that it will set up a new plant for recycling of food-grade post-consumer PET. Likely to be situated beside its existing recycling plant, the new facility spreads over an area of 120,000ft2 with ...
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Majestic Seafoods, the joint venture between Frabelle Fishing, Century Canning and Thailand's Thai Union, is set to establish $37.6m tuna cannery in Papua New Guinea. The 200-ton capacity canning plant will initially create 2,000 new ...