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Nanjing spent 53M Pounds to buy MG Rover.
Car assembly to resume at Longbridge
Financial Times 07/17/06
by John Griffiths and James Mackintosh
(c) 2006 The Financial Times Limited. All rights reserved
Nanjing Automobile Corporation has outline plans to assemble additional models to the MG TF sports car at Longbridge and is considering using the Birmingham plant as the assembly base for exports to elsewhere in Europe.
As a first step, production of the TF will resume at Longbridge in the first half of next year at an annual rate of 15,000 cars a year, Yu Jianwei, president of NAC, told the Financial Times on Monday.
The move represents the first step in a strategy by NAC to become the first Chinese carmaker to operate internationally, with assembly of Chinese-produced kits in Oklahoma for the North American market now also under serious study.
Mr Yu said a letter of intent signed last week with a potential US partner to open a factory near Oklahoma City was "just a thought"; details remained under discussion and - if proceeded with - would leave the US and UK companies "connected but independent".
However, insiders confirmed that Duke Hale, president and CEO of MG Motors North America, which is private-equity funded, could be put in charge of the European operations too.
Mr Hale said last week the European business, including Longbridge, would be put into a joint venture with MG Motors North America.
Mr Yu said NAC's own factory in Nanjing will be completed in the first half of next year and will have the capacity to produce 200,000 cars a year, 250,000 engines and 100,000 gearboxes.
It will produce all of the models it acquired under its ¡53m purchase of MG Rover's assets last year including the MG ZT executive saloon and estate car - although the rights to the Rover versions, the Rover 75, are held by rival Chinese carmaker SAIC, whose own production is expected to start next year.
NAC is already employing 57 people at Longbridge in a variety of roles, including design and engineering.
A recruitment programme is gathering pace which could see up to 200 employed when the first TF models - already updated through consultancy engineering contracts with Arup and Group Lotus - come off the lines at the 150 acres Nanjing has leased at Longbridge for the next 33 years. Before MG Rover's collapse Longbridge was making 110,000 cars a year.
NAC is making an initial investment of ¡10m in the Longbridge facility. Mr Yu said NAC was still interested in finding partners for the project and would welcome government aid. However, it intended to keep the Longbridge programme "on target and on schedule".
While the bulk of components will come from China, Longbridge's role will extend to more than assembly from Chinese-produced kits, said Mr Yu. It would include the welding of bodies.
However, Nanjing's plans were described last night as "a disappointment" by the Transport and General Workers' union. It said that Nanjing's plans for limited car assembly at Longbridge had failed to live up to expectations. "It is in stark contrast to earlier public indications from Nanjing of 100,000 units and 1,200 jobs."
NAC has signed what it is describing as strategic partnerships with Arup and Lotus for the modernisation of the rest of the MG range.
They will work in concert with a research and development centre NAC is to set up at Longbridge, although Mr Yu made clear that Nanjing's own technical centre will play an increasing role as the Chinese carmaker moves towards a target of producing the first cars entirely of its own design to reach the market in 2009.
Updated models following the TF, led by the ZT large car, will go on sale in 2008. All models would offer "significant enhancements" over the old ranges, said company executives.
Group Lotus is being used by NAC for a crash programme to upgrade MG Rover's K-Series engines to the European Union's Euro IV emissions standards - a condition for sales to be able to resume across Europe. But the contract with Lotus is understood to extend to chassis engineering and other development areas.
Mr Yu said talks were well advanced with much of the old MG Rover dealer networks in the UK and continental Europe for the re-launch of distribution next year.
Nanjing to begin production at Longbridge, promising to make MG great again
The Guardian (UK) 07/18/06
by Mark Milner
Copyright (C) 2006 The Guardian; Source: World Reporter (TM)
Car production is to restart at the former MG Rover plant at Longbridge in the first half of 2007, two years after the last British-owned volume car maker collapsed into administration with the loss of 6,000 jobs.
Nanjing Automotive Corporation, which bought the bulk of the MG Rover assets from the administrators for ¡53m, said it initially planned to invest ¡10m to produce 15,000 cars a year.
Longbridge had been producing just over 100,000 cars a year before its demise.
The Chinese car maker was reticent about the number of jobs which would be created once the plant came back into production. Yu Jianwei, the president of NAC, said the company employed 57 people at Longbridge at present but when production was launched that could rise by "one, two or three times".
The Transport & General Workers' Union expressed disappointment at the scale of Nanjing's plans. "Former MG Rover workers had been led to believe there were more ambitious plans than these which is why today is a disappointment," said Dave Osborne, national secretary for the car industry. There had been suggestions that Longbridge could produce up to 100,000 cars a year, employing 1,000 people.
Nanjing has moved the bulk of the Longbridge equipment to a new plant being built at its home base which will have the capacity to produce 200,000 cars and 250,000 engines a year. Longbridge will assemble cars from kits of components from China. The first model to be manufactured at Longbridge will be the MG TF sports car but NAC is looking at bringing the upmarket MG ZT range into production in 2008.
NAC has signed a letter of intent to build a car plant in Oklahoma, with Mr Yu suggesting that NAC would run a three-plant strategy if the US deal went ahead. He said Nanjing continued to look for partners in Britain but the restart of production did not depend on bringing in outside investors.
"MG stands for superb style but most of all it's about passion," Mr Yu said. "I believe with that passion, with our strategy, with the efforts of our teams in the UK and China, the MG project will be a success.
"The MG brand will be revived. The MG brand will once again be a great one."
Nanjing's road ahead will create only 200 jobs at MG
The Guardian (UK) 07/18/06
by Grant Ringshaw
Copyright (C) 2006 The Guardian; Source: World Reporter (TM)
Nanjing Automobile Corporation, the Chinese car maker, is to restart production of MG sports cars at the mothballed Longbridge plant, making around 15,000 vehicles a year.
The production plans are on a much lower scale than many in the UK car industry had hoped and are equivalent to just 13pc of Longbridge's 110,000 annual output before MG Rover collapsed with debts of ¡1.4bn in April last year.
China's fourth biggest car maker said it would invest ¡10m at Longbridge and that production of the two-seater MG TF sports car will resume next year. Nanjing is also re-establishing a research and development centre to work on planned new models.
Around 57 staff are currently working at the plant and more will be recruited as the business develops. However, fewer than 200 jobs are expected to be created.
The MG sports cars will be marketed in Britain, Europe and China. Nanjing is also planning to set up a factory in Oklahoma producing between 12,000 and 16,000 MGs.
Nanjing managing director Yu Jianwei said the sports cars will be assembled from kits supplied by Nanjing's factory in China, which is currently being built. The Chinese plant, which will partly use equipment from Longbridge, is forecast to produce 200,000 cars and 250,000 engines a year.
The plans are a blow to the 6,000 workers who lost their jobs when MG Rover collapsed since many had hoped to find new employment at the Birmingham factory.
Nanjing paid ¡53m to buy many of the assets of MG Rover last year. Officials at the Chinese car company had indicated that Nanjing had more ambitious plans that could have led to around 600 to 1,000 jobs being created at Longbridge and the plant producing up to 100,000 cars a year.
The Transport & General Workers Union said it was disappointed at the scale of the plans.
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