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Automotive production record
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Three UK automotive companies achieved record output in 2010, despite the fragile economic situation.
Nissan, Morgan and Rolls Royce (BMW) all posted record outputs that year from their respective UK plants, Professor Garel Rhys told the Aluminium in Automotive Conference, in Birmingham UK.
Nissan produced 423,000 vehicles, Rolls Royce 3,215 vehicles and Morgan 700. Mr Rhys said that the Nissan figures were incredible and that no other UK carmaker had passed the 400,000 figure before.
Prof Rhys said the figures prove the UK is still a major vehicle manufacturer in terms of what it can do.
Its strengths are in the design of vehicles and their components and the range in vehicles it can produce, including cars, buses, vans systems and trucks but needs to improve its R&D and production of coaches (chassis) small people carriers and small panel vans.
Hot markets are Germany because of the size of its industry, the UK because of the potential of the industry and India because of its growth potential and sustainable structure.
The advantages of using aluminium in vehicles include its light weight compared to steel, it is rustproof and can be combined with other metals to produce alloys and can be combined with magnesium and copper to optimise temperature resistance and tensile strength.
The Aluminium in Automotive Conference is organised by the UK’s Aluminium Federation and the Aluminium Alloy Manufacturing & Recycling Association. About 100 delegates attended the event which features 16 presentations, an evening dinner and a plant visit to the Jaguar Land Rover Plant in Castle Bromwich, UK.
Nissan, Morgan and Rolls Royce (BMW) all posted record outputs that year from their respective UK plants, Professor Garel Rhys told the Aluminium in Automotive Conference, in Birmingham UK.
Nissan produced 423,000 vehicles, Rolls Royce 3,215 vehicles and Morgan 700. Mr Rhys said that the Nissan figures were incredible and that no other UK carmaker had passed the 400,000 figure before.
Prof Rhys said the figures prove the UK is still a major vehicle manufacturer in terms of what it can do.
Its strengths are in the design of vehicles and their components and the range in vehicles it can produce, including cars, buses, vans systems and trucks but needs to improve its R&D and production of coaches (chassis) small people carriers and small panel vans.
Hot markets are Germany because of the size of its industry, the UK because of the potential of the industry and India because of its growth potential and sustainable structure.
The advantages of using aluminium in vehicles include its light weight compared to steel, it is rustproof and can be combined with other metals to produce alloys and can be combined with magnesium and copper to optimise temperature resistance and tensile strength.
The Aluminium in Automotive Conference is organised by the UK’s Aluminium Federation and the Aluminium Alloy Manufacturing & Recycling Association. About 100 delegates attended the event which features 16 presentations, an evening dinner and a plant visit to the Jaguar Land Rover Plant in Castle Bromwich, UK.
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