http://www.sunderlandecho.com/news/business/nissan-plans-to-extend-sunderland-plant-1-5966522 Nissan plans to extend Sunderland plant [2013/08/20]
[image http://www.sunderlandecho.com/webimage/1.5966518.1376923475!/image/3595774429.jpg A view showing the dashboard being fitted on the production line of the Nissan Leaf electric car at the Nissan Plant, Sunderland. ] NISSAN has unveiled plans to extend its Sunderland plant. The car giant has applied for permission to build an extra 25,000 sq feet of floorspace, primarily to allow extension of its body shop and trim and chassis sections. Plant bosses hope the plans could go before the council’s planning committee as early as next month. “Nissan has applied to Sunderland City Council for planning permission to extend the body shop, paint shop, trim and chassis and press shop at our Sunderland plant,” a company spokesman told the Echo. “If approved, these extensions will support the continued growth of Nissan’s UK operations, reflecting the success of models manufactured in the UK including Qashqai, Juke, Note and the 100 per cent electric Nissan Leaf. “The main extensions proposed are to body shop and the trim and chassis building and are required for new production facilities. Recruitment activities are ongoing to support this expansion, especially in our engineering and maintenance departments. “Anybody interested in joining the company at this exciting time can view all our current vacancies at the website www.careersatnissan.co.uk” The application is the latest stage in a busy period for the plant, which began building the Leaf earlier this year and has three models in the pipeline. As well as new versions of the best-selling Qashqai and the popular Note family car, Nissan confirmed before Christmas that it was bringing production of its Infiniti brand to the UK for the first time, a move former plant boss Colin Dodge said would guarantee the future of the Sunderland plant into the 2020s. Mr Dodge, now a member of the board at the firm’s Japanese headquarters, said: “We hope to start production in 2015 and a car typically last five to six years, and we will be bringing other cars forward, too.” The announcement was a tribute to the plant’s workforce, he added. “They have done everything that was asked of them and they have earned the right to make a premium car to go head to-head with the German premium cars. “It is the first new car brand to start mass production in the UK since Toyota in 1992, so it does not happen very often.” [© 2013 Johnston Publishing] For all EVLN posts use: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=search_page&node=413529&query=evln&sort=date Here are today's archive-only EV posts: EVLN: Blink turns some EVSE down to 3kW to avoid coupler overheating EVLN: Plugging Into The Math Of An Electric Car (audio) EVLN: Taxi EVs widely used in USA, yet only proposed for London (!) EVLN: NZ TM Brownlee EV-sceptical until he test-drove the Tesla SP85 EVLN: After a year, Schmitt is still Th!nking around Santa Cruz, CA + EVLN: Singapore's first Electric driverless shuttle system {brucedp.150m.com} -- View this message in context: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/EVLN-Nissan-applied-to-City-Council-to-extend-Sunderland-plant-tp4664836.html Sent from the Electric Vehicle Discussion List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
