Longbridge production restarts
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Manufacturing News, Source : TheManufacturer.com
Published : 29 May 2007 9:54
The Longbridge car plant will officially reopen today, two years after closing following the collapse of Rover.
Chinese owners Nanjing Automobile Corporation is to build MG TF sports cars at Longbridge with the first models due off the production line later this year.
Pre-production MG TF sports cars will be driven off the newly re-commissioned production line as part of a special ceremony to mark the next phase in the restarting of car production. There will also be a special cavalcade of MG cars around the plant.
Almost 6,000 workers lost their jobs when MG Rover went out of business, with many jobs also being lost at companies that supplied the car giant with goods and services.
Unions have welcomed the reopening of the Longbridge plant, particularly Nanjing’s pledge to create 1200 new jobs.
“The restarting of car production will be welcome but we continue to press Nanjing to honour their stated objective of creating 1,200 jobs,” said Eric McDonald, the regional industrial organiser of the Unite union.
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