Nissan Ávila expects to recover full employment, with close to 500 workers, in 2023, thus increasing the current workforce by almost 200 people, as announced on Tuesday by the senior vice president of Nissan Industrial Operations in the AMIEO region, Kevin Fitzpatrick, during the inauguration of the new stamping hall.
Nissan has received today the president of the Junta de Castilla y León, Alfonso Fernández Mañueco, at the Ávila plant together with the mayor of Ávila, Jesús Manuel Sánchez Cabrera and other institutional representatives to celebrate the inauguration of the factory’s new stamping plant from Avila. Senior Vice President of Nissan Industrial Operations in the AMIEO region, Kevin Fitzpatrick was present at the event.
The local and regional authorities, along with Nissan executives, have visited the new plant, which has 23,000 square meters, with 12,000 more than initially planned, to see the new stamping line and the injection molding machine. plastic that will increase the productive capacity of the factory. In addition, during the visit, the traditional Japanese ceremony, ‘Daruma’*, was closed, in which the other eye of the amulet was painted to formalize the goal achieved by inaugurating the stamping plant.
The senior vice president of Nissan Industrial Operations in the AMIEO region, Kevin Fitzpatrick, thanked the president of the Junta de Castilla y León and the mayor of Ávila, as well as the workers, for their support and dedication to making this project a reality. . He added: “Nissan is making an important commitment to Europe, which will lead our global movement towards electrification and where we will maintain a significant presence in Spain with the industrial plants in Cantabria and Ávila, as well as all the commercial activity of the brand, the Technical Center of Nissan in Barcelona, the purchasing function, the logistics center and the spare parts warehouse, which in total account for more than 1,700 jobs in Spain.”
With this start-up, Nissan is complying with the industrial transformation agreement agreed in 2017. Since the signing of said agreement, the factory transformation project is moving in the right direction and proof of this is that Nissan has progressed in manufacturing of spare parts for more than 11 models of the Alliance, of the Renault and Nissan brands specifically. On the other hand, Nissan has begun new projects to provide the plant with more workload, such as, for example, the project in conjunction with Renault Retail Group (RRG), for the adaptation of multi-brand used vehicles and their subsequent sale. In 2020 a total of 57,000 pieces were manufactured and in 2021 more than 100,000.
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For her part, the director of Nissan Ávila, Nuria Pilar Cristóbal García commented: “We are not only manufacturing spare parts for metal parts, but also new parts and we have sought new projects and business opportunities. Soon we will manufacture the suspension structure of a Alliance’s new model, which represents the entry of Nissan Ávila into the production of vehicle parts, beyond the spare parts activity and, also, the production of replacement bumpers for Nissan, which will make us an operations center or bumper industrial pole for the Alliance in southern Europe”.
Núria Pilar Cristóbal García added that “following this line of commitment, we anticipate that, for this year, the employment situation will exceed 350 jobs and that, in 2023, we will be in a situation of full employment, as foreseen in the objectives of the Industrial Plan of 2017”.
Regarding the 2017 transformation plan, Nissan has already invested the 40 million of the initial planning, an amount to which the company plans to add an additional 15 million euros (+35%) to reach a total of 55 million euros. that will be invested between 2018 and 2022.
In addition, the investment and public aid plan allowed Nissan to start work in the CyLOG area in November 2021 for the construction of the new 21,000 m2 warehouse, a space that Nissan has brought next to the factory with the support of the City Council of Ávila and the Junta de Castilla y León. This fact will help the Nissan Ávila plant to improve the competitiveness of the plant by significantly lowering logistics costs.
During the act, the president of the Junta de Castilla y León. Alfonso Fernndez Mañueco, has highlighted that the inauguration of the new Nissan stamping plant in Ávila is “a clear sign that foreign capital finds in Castilla y León a stable and reliable territory in which to invest”.
“Nissan has opted for Castilla y León and this land responds”, highlighted the head of the regional Executive, who has assured that the new plant “is a collective success, the result of public-private collaboration and the joint work of Nissan and the Junta de Castilla y León for production and employment in Ávila”.
The new plant “opens a new stage of opportunities and future” and “leaves behind some of the moments of greatest uncertainty experienced by the society of Avila in recent years,” said the president.
In addition, it has influenced that “one of the most important milestones of the Nissan Industrial Plan is culminated” with an investment of close to 30 million euros by the Board, to which must be added the participation in the logistics part planned in the plan.
In total, more than 55 million euros until 2026, which will allow the maintenance of almost 500 direct jobs when production is at one hundred percent.
Fernández Mañueco has pointed out that Castilla y León “is the leader and indisputable benchmark at a national and international level in the automotive sector”, since the Community has 20 percent of the total manufacturing capacity installed at a national level and represents 25 percent of Castilian-Leon industrial GDP.
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