plant news

The 2011 Mustang is built at the AutoAlliance International Plant in Flat Rock, Mich., and goes on sale this spring.

Ford Motor Company is investing $155 million and adding 60 jobs at its Cleveland operations to build a new fuel-efficient V-6 engine for the 2011 Mustang, which has expected class-leading highway fuel efficiency of 30 miles per gallon on the highway and 305 horsepower.

The manufacturer of sporty premium vehicles is making a 40,000-square-meter area on the roof top of its central spare parts warehouse in Sachsenheim (Baden-Wuerttemberg) available to the firm Goldbeck Solar GmbH, Hirschberg an der Berg-strasse, in order to install and operate approximately 8,500 photovoltaic modules there.

The plant with an installed capacity of 870 megawatts (MW) attains an efficiency of 59 percent and thus has very low CO2 emissions. Thanks to the state-of-the-art burner technology used the plant’s nitrogen oxide emissions are very low at less than 15 ppm.

The planned new focus for Salo is expected to affect a maximum of 285 employees involved in production and in related support functions at Salo. Today, Nokia’s Salo facility employs approximately 2 200 people.

As Opel moves quickly on its way towards a viable future, the company announced today the intent to wind down its manufacturing plant in Antwerp, Belgium in the course of 2010.

Taking advantage of huge advancements in virtual manufacturing technology, teams of engineers, manufacturing specialists and assembly plant workers around the world gathered in front of large projection screens in North America, Europe and Asia to build the first next-generation Ford Focus

Audi has opened the largest new ‘Terminal’-style dealership in Brighton, Melbourne, known as Audi Centre Brighton.

Thermotechnology division plans to acquire all the shares in Köhler & Ziegler Anlagetechnik GmbH, a German manufacturer of combined heat and power plants. Agreements to this effect were signed on December 18, 2009.

The new, all-vertical coil handling system will enable the plant to accept future larger billets for higher yields and greater productivity with less downtime.

Today reported that Honda Motor Co plans to build a new passenger car plant in China to increase production in the rapidly growing market, sources familiar with the matter said Sunday.

The Board of Management and the General Labor Council of Daimler AG have agreed on the details of a personnel concept for the Sindelfingen plant in connection with the reorganization of the worldwide Mercedes-Benz production network.

THINK, the Scandinavian electric vehicle (EV) maker, has re-started production of the THINK City – one of the world’s first urban EVs – at a state-of-the-art new facility with manufacturing partner Valmet Automotive in Uusikaupunki, Finland.

The Renault-Nissan Alliance today announced the location for the planned battery production site in Portugal. The announcement was made today in Lisbon by Prime Minister Jose Socrates and Carlos Ghosn, Chairman and CEO of the Renault-Nissan Alliance.

Five months after being awarded the contract of the Power Island for Nhon Trach 2 Combined Cycle Power Plant (CCPP), which consists of two gas turbines, one steam turbine, the generators, the main electrical and instrumentation and controls equipment, Siemens Energy has been entrusted by Petro Vietnam Power Nhon Trach 2 Joint Stock Co. to provide the long-term maintenance service for the major equipment in this power plant in the south of Vietnam.

Suzuki Motor Corporation is moving forward with its plans to take part in Thailand’s eco-car project. Suzuki received Thai approval for eco-car production in December 2007.

North American production of the all-new 2011 Buick Regal was today confirmed for the Oshawa Car Assembly plant beginning in Q1 2011.

The Volkswagen Group’s Automotive Division will invest around €25.8 billion in the coming three years. Investments in property, plant and equipment will account for €19.9 billion, half of which will be invested in Germany alone.

To celebrate the 110th anniversary of engine building at its Mladá Boleslav plant, Škoda Auto is delighted to announce that it will produce the latest generation, 1.2 TSI power unit at this historic site.

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists and their colleagues have completed a four-year effort to sequence the genome of corn, an achievement expected to speed up development of corn varieties that will help feed the world and meet growing demands for using this important grain crop as a biofuel and animal feed.