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Dec 15, 2012

CARMAKERS NEWS * WORLDWIDE

* Russia - Renault-Nissan Secures Majority Control Of AvtoVAZ

  Moscow,Russia -YouTube -12 Dec 2012: -- The Renault–Nissan Alliance has finalised the details of a new joint venture with Russian Technologies that will secure majority control of AvtoVAZ, owner of the Lada brand...  The new venture, Alliance Rostec Auto BV, have been made to accelerate product launches and technology transfer to AVTOVAZ, Russia's largest carmaker: 
• Renault-Nissan will invest about US$750 million, and Russian Technologies will favorably restructure debt as they form the joint venture. 
• Renault-Nissan will get a majority stake in the joint venture, which will control AVTOVAZ; transaction is expected to be complete in 2014...


* Germany - Volkswagen Group lays foundation stone for new engine plant in Russia

(Photo: A Volkswagen Vento) Wolfsburg,Germany/Kaluga,Russia -VW (PR) -11 Dec 2012: -- Volkswagen Group is pressing ahead with Russian expansion plans, a sign of confidence in a market where sales have decidedly begun to slow... From 2015, the Group is to supply its vehicle assembly plant at Kaluga and contract production at the GAZ plant in Nizhny Novgorod with highly advanced engines produced locally... The new plant is designed for an annual capacity of 150,000 units. The engine to be produced at Kaluga in the future will be a 1.6-litre petrol engine from the EA 211 series, representing Volkswagen’s most modern engine technology. The start of production is scheduled for the beginning of 2015... For the Volkswagen Group, Russia is currently its sixth-largest individual market, after China, Germany, Brazil, the USA and Great Britain. In 2012, the Group will deliver more than 315,000 vehicles to Russian customers, corresponding to growth of 38% compared with the previous year. More than half of these vehicles already come from local production. In the long term, the Volkswagen Group plans to sell 500,000 vehicles per year in Russia by 2018...


* Brazil - Revolutionary ‘One-Kit’ Assembly Process At New Hyundai Brazil Plant Powered By Rolling Robots

Piracicaba,SP,Brazil -Automotive News (UK) -10 Dec 2012: ... One particular innovation at the Brazil plant and dig a little deeper, because it’s a great illustration of Hyundai’s new thinking. Our new plant in Piracicaba, Brazil – about 160 kilometers northwest of Sao Paulo – employs a new kind of parts-supply setup called a “one-kit” system... This factory is where our Brazilian Car Of the Year-winning HB20 is made...  Typically, on an automotive assembly line, the cars go by and workers attach parts, which they pull from stationary bins near their work station. This has worked pretty well for the past 100 years or so, but it also leads to parts redundancy – every parts station must have bolts or screws, for instance – and the process causes extra worker motion, since workers have to turn around and grab parts to put on the cars...  At Piracicaba, most of the parts for each individual vehicle – mainly the smaller parts, such as bolts and trim and small assemblies – are placed in “kits” that travel alongside the vehicle on a parallel line...
* China -  Zhejiang Geely And Volvo Cars Sign Tech Cooperation Agreements

(Photo: Zhejiang Geely unveils GLEagle GX7 SUV at Beijing Auto Show) 
Zhejiang,China -Whats on Ningbo -12 Dec 2012: -- Chinese carmaker Zhejiang Geely Holding has signed three technological cooperation agreements with Volvo Cars... The deals will allow Zhejiang to use some technologies Volvo plans to phase out in the next two years...  As per the deals, Zhejiang will use Volvo's mid-size vehicle platform or underpinning technology, interior air quality, and safety technology... The agreements are expected to improve Geely's vehicle engineering abilities and help the two firms reduce costs...


* Japan - Toyota To Postpone Tianjin Project
Toyota City,Aichi Prefecture,Japan -Automotive News, by David Isaiah -10 Dec 2012: -- Japanese vehicle manufacturer Toyota has reportedly decided to postpone construction of a new plant in Tianjin, China. The OEM is also believed to be considering delaying the construction of another new plant in Guangzhou. Toyota currently manufactures its vehicles at three facilities in China... 


* UK - Desert rovers JLR and Saudi Arabia

Whitley, Coventry, United Kingdom -The Economist, by P.C. -Dec 11, 2012: -- It has been a busy time for Jaguar Land Rover (JLR). In the past three months the British-based but Indian-owned luxury carmaker has launched the all-new Jaguar F-Type sports car, a radically redesigned Range Rover SUV (pictured) and the Jaguar XFR-S, a high-performance sedan. It has started work on a new assembly plant in China with its local partner, Chery. And now it has signed an agreement with Saudi Arabia to look into building factories there to make parts, and perhaps finished cars... Perhaps unsurprisingly, JLR’s plans to expand abroad have caused a bit of anxiety among workers at its British plants. But such worries should be assuaged by the company’s heavy investment and job creation both at its existing plants, in the West Midlands and Merseyside, and at a new engine factory that is now being built in Wolverhampton...
* India - Jeep To Enter India In 2013

Ranjangaon,Taluka/Shirur,Pune,India -Automotive News, by David Isaiah -7 Dec 2012: -- Fiat Group Automobiles India (FGAIPL) has announced a slew of vehicle launches for the Indian market, in a move aimed at strengthening its position in the country. Significantly, this strategy includes the official launch of the Jeep brand in India in 2013... 


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* Russia - ContiTech Invests €13 Million In New Plant In  
 Kaluga,Russia -Automotive News -10 Dec 2012: -- ContiTech is investing some €13 million in a new plant for air-conditioning and power steering lines in the Russian city of Kaluga. Construction of the plant is expected to begin in February next year; the first series parts are scheduled for production in December 2013... With this move, ContiTech is therefore following its customer Renault-Nissan, which holds a majority stake in Russian automaker AvtoVaz... The manufacturing facility will be constructed on the 60-hectare site where a Continental tire plant is currently being set up. Both facilities will be able to share the existing infrastructure there...

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