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CARMAKERS NEWS * WORLDWIDE
* USA - Mercedes shipping SUV kits to Asia
(Photo by Dusty Compton/Tuscaloosa News: Quality specialist Teri Evans, left, and packer Wendy Jackson, right, check a window pane as quality manager Sebastian Kahle looks on during a tour of the SKD packaging facility at BLG Logistics Inc. in Vance on Monday. Mercedes is building semi- assembled car kits for India, Indonesia and Thailand. The move will help increase the presence of Mercedes-Benz products in the SUV segment of these markets)
Vance,SC,USA -The Tuscaloosa News, by Patrick Rupinski -August 13, 2012: -- Mercedes-Benz U.S. International Inc. has started sending kits containing all the parts of M-Class sport utility vehicles to three Asian countries where the vehicles will be assembled for sale in those nations.
Marcus Schaefer, president of MBUSI, said Monday that the move will increase Mercedes sales in India, Indonesia and Thailand.
Those countries have protectionist trade policies that include high tariffs, import fees and customs restrictions. Those have made the Mercedes sports utility vehicles made in Vance extremely expensive, even for luxury car buyers, in those countries, he said... Schaefer said the kits will increase production for Mercedes' U.S. automotive suppliers and result in more jobs for the suppliers and at the Tuscaloosa County Mercedes plant, which will build and paint the vehicles' bodies...
* Germany - Volkswagen Group to build own engine plant in Russia
Wolfsburg,Germany -Green Car Congress -28 August 2012: -- The Volkswagen Group is expanding its capacities in Russia with the construction of a new engine plant in Kaluga, Russia. The Volkswagen Group will invest approximately €250 million (US$314 million) at the new location, where a a 1.6-liter gasoline engine from the EA 211 series will be produced locally as of 2015. The capacity is set at 150,000 engines a year... The engine plant is being built directly next to the Volkswagen vehicle plant in Kaluga... As of 2015, the engine plant will supply engines for the vehicle production of the Volkswagen Group Rus in Kaluga as well as the contract production in the GAZ plant in Nizhny Novgorod. Crankcases, cylinder heads with assembly integrated, crankshafts as well as the complete engine assembly are all part of the planned scope of production...
* USA - Ford to add its sixth plant in China
Dearborn,MICH,USA -The Detroit News, by Karl Henkel -August 28, 2012: -- Ford Motor Co. is investing another $600 million in China, this time for a new manufacturing facility in Chongqing, the company's largest global manufacturing location outside of southeastern Michigan... The expansion by Ford, announced Monday, along with its joint venture, Changan Ford Mazda Automobile, will be the automaker's third assembly plant in Chongqing and sixth manufacturing facility overall... The new plant — Chongqing 3 — should begin production in late 2014 and will have the capacity to produce 250,000 vehicles annually, Ford said... The Dearborn automaker's capacity is expected to reach 1.2 million in China by 2015... In total, Ford has invested about $5 billion in China, the world's fastest-growing economy...
* USA - Eighth company pleads guilty in auto industry price fixing
Washington,DC,USA -The Detroit News, by David Shepardson -August 28, 2012: -- An eighth company has agreed to plead guilty as part of the Justice Department's wide-ranging investigation into price fixing and bid rigging in the auto parts industry... Nagoya, Japan-based, Nippon Seiki Co. Ltd. on Tuesday agreed to plead guilty and to pay a $1 million criminal fine as part of a conspiracy to fix prices of instrument panel clusters installed in vehicles sold in the United States and around the world, the Justice Department said... Nippon Seiki manufactures many auto parts, including instrument panel clusters. Instrument panel clusters are the mounted instruments and gauges housed in front of the driver of an automobile... Including Nippon Seiki, eight companies and 11 executives have been charged as part of the government's ongoing investigation into price fixing and bid rigging in the auto parts industry. Furukawa Electric Co. Ltd., DENSO Corp., Yazaki Corp., G.S. Electech Inc., Fujikura Ltd. and Autoliv Inc. have pleaded guilty and were ordered to pay more than $785 million in criminal fines... Last month, TRW Deutschland Holding GmbH agreed to plead guilty and is awaiting sentencing...Labels: carmakers news worldwide
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