Guests at the Welsh Automotive Forum Santander networking dinner at The Vale hotel, near Miskin donated over £2,800 to industry charity BEN. Regional fund-raiser Nigel Williams said more was still coming in and added, “Many thanks for your continuing support and it has been fascinating to see the WAF networking dinner become so successful and … [Read more...]
Multi-million-pound Nissan Sunderland investment
Nissan will create a “super-plant” at its Sunderland centre. Confirming the next Qashqai will be built there, it unexpectedly yesterday added that the X-Trail SUV will also go into production in the North East. To do this the current installed capacity of 475,000 cars will be expanded and Nissan aims to build 600,000 cars from 2018. It is almost … [Read more...]
Newslines 20 June
The Welsh Automotive Forum and Northern Automotive Alliance supplier groups have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to more effectively work together for mutual benefit. The MoU acknowledges that the border between England and Wales isn’t a barrier for people and organisations doing business, and that from now on companies working in the automotive … [Read more...]
