Nissan Opens Third Mexico Plant, Boosts Sentra Production
14 Nov 2013, 13:54 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Japanese automaker Nissan has inaugurated its third manufacturing plant in Mexico this week, increasing its output in the country from 650,000 to 850,000 vehicles per year. The new facility will ...
Land Rover to Open Production Plant in Brazil
3 Oct 2013, 14:28 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Jaguar Land Rover is getting ready to open a new production plant in Brazil, Autocar reveals, adding that the automaker is already looking for a plant quality manager with “Portuguese language...
Volkswagen’s Chattanooga Plant Celebrates 5th Anniversary
16 Jul 2013, 12:38 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / German automaker Volkswagen celebrates five years since announcing the decision to build an automobile manufacturing facility in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Officially inaugurated in May 2011, constr...
Detroit's Packard Plant Headed For Auction
12 Jun 2013, 12:42 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / The abandoned factory that used to produce Packard luxury automobiles in Detroit, Michigan until the 1950s is scheduled to go under the hammer this September at the Wayne County auctions. Foreclo...
Hyundai Goes Green with Photovoltaic Rooftop Powerplant
10 May 2013, 12:24 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / South Korean automaker Hyundai Motor Company announced that it will install the country’s largest rooftop photovoltaic powerplant at its manufacturing facility in Asan. As part of the compa...
Volkswagen To Fire 500 Workers at Chattanooga Plant
21 Apr 2013, 10:56 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Volkswagen’s assembly plant in Chattanooga Tennessee announced that it will lay off five hundred of its workers due to overly-optimistic expectations when the factory started. The facility ...
Dacia is Negotiating New Work Deal With It's Employees
26 Mar 2013, 14:47 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / After the spontaneous strike at the Dacia plant in Mioveni, Romania, that paused the production for a day and a half, the employees got back to work as they were ensured that their demands will be r...
Dacia Workers Went on Two Day Strike, Claim They Are Overworked
21 Mar 2013, 17:23 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / The main Dacia plant, located in Mioveni, Romania, stopped it’s production on Wednesday this week, due to its angry workers and their demands. Fearing mass layoffs due to contracts not bein...
GM Idles Lake Orion to Cut Sonic and Verado Inventories
20 Dec 2012, 10:18 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / A couple of days ago, we learned that General Motors has a 164 day supply of the new Chevy Malibu and is idling the Fairfax plant in Kansas to get rid of some o this excess. Now, the same can be sai...
MINI’s Plant in Oxford Turns 100 in 2013
19 Dec 2012, 15:10 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / In 2013, MINI will celebrate 100 years of car-making at the site of MINI Plant Oxford. The main event will take place on Mach 28th, the day that marks production of the first Bullnose Morris Oxford ...
Ford Celebrates Production of 40 Million Engines at Dagenham
11 Jul 2012, 10:50 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The Dagenham plant, located in East London, has been one of Ford’s most important strategic manufacturing points since 1931. It also offered plenty of employment opportunities for the locals, ...
Possible Fiat-Volvo Partnership Speculated
25 Jun 2012, 13:21 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Recent rumors have hinted that Fiat and Volvo could form a partnership, as the Chinese Swedish manufacturer is looking to build small and medium-sized cars in the US. The catch is that if an automak...
Tennessee Plant Opening to Double Leaf Sales, Say Nissan
19 Jun 2012, 08:16 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The Nissan Leaf has proven itself to be the word’s first proper mass market (-ed) EV. Nissan are a good few years ahead of the competition, a situation which represents the vision of Carlos Gh...
Honda Start Construction of New Indonesian Plant
4 Jun 2012, 13:15 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Honda want to increase their current Indonesian production from 60,000 units per year, to over 180,000 with the addition of a new plant. The construction of the new factory will take place in a subu...
Honda Building Its Third Motorcycle Production Plant in Vietnam
25 Jul 2011, 11:32 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / Japanese motorcycle manufacturer Honda opened its first manufacturing site in Vietnam back in late 1997, followed by a second venue in mid-2008, both with an annual production capacity of 1 million ...
Nissan Creates Company in Charge of Kyushu Plant
25 Apr 2011, 08:00 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / In a bid to increase its importance on the home market by making the management process of its plants easier, Japanese automaker Nissan announced today the establishment of a new company, one that w...
BMW Considering Assembly Plant in Brazil
19 Mar 2011, 09:27 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The expanding markets in Asia and Latin America are making auto makers around the world consider moves that were previously regarded as fantasy. For now, Asia has pretty much captured the ...
Economic Slowdown Plagues Auto-Makers
21 Nov 2012, 14:06 UTC · By: Alexandru Stan / The unspooling financial crisis takes its toll on car-producers as the Volkswagen owned Czech Republic-based Skoda announced on Monday that it would halt production for a full week. The stoppage wil...
Honda Opens New Indiana Plant
21 Nov 2012, 14:06 UTC · By: Alexandru Stan / Contrary to the financial collapse-triggered tendencies that have pushed the majority of auto producers to employment cutbacks and temporary production halts, Honda trumpets the opening of a new pla...
Confirmed: Mercedes Builds Hungarian Plant
21 Nov 2012, 14:06 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Rainer Schmückle, Chief Operating Officer of Mercedes-Benz Cars, and Gordon Bajnai, Hungarian Minister for National Development and Economy, today signed the agreement for the new Kecskemet pow...