Jaguar Land Rover opened its overseas manufacturing facility in China.
In a joint venture with Chery Automobile Company Ltd., Jaguar will build Range Rover Evoque at the plant, which is located in the Changshu Economic Development Zone north of Shanghai.
The plant inauguration of Chery Jaguar Land Rover Automotive Co. follows the two-year construction of a factory, which is almost 400,000 square-metres. The factory is part of a RMB 10.9 billion joint venture investment plan.
By 2016, the facility is expected to be building three Jaguar Land Rover models with total production capacity of 130,000 units a year. “Those vehicles will be manufactured in highly-automated press shops – including cutting-edge aluminium and steel technologies – along with a steel body shop comprising 306 robots, an energy-efficient paint shop and an ergonomically-friendly final assembly line,” Jaguar said in a statement.
In the last fiscal year, Jaguar Land Rover sold more than 100,000 vehicles in China.
