Jaguar Announce Investment

Published Date: 23rd Jun 2014

Jaguar Land Rover has announced a £200m investment for Merseyside

 

The £200m investment will create 250 new jobs at the Merseyside car plant.

The company said they are building the new Discovery Sport model at their Halewood plant. The new jobs will take the number of people employed at the Liverpool plant over 4,750. The Merseyside plant already builds the new Range Rover Evoque.

The new Land Rover model will go on sale here in 2015.

The company’s Operations Director, Richard Else, explained: "We have seen our work force treble and production quadruple in just four years." He said the plant now runs for 24-hours a day, and operates three shifts.

Roger Maddison, from the Unite union, has welcomed the addition of new jobs as great news for the North West and "a great boost for UK car manufacturing".

"Unite members have shown that they have the skills and commitment to make Land Rover the world leader that it is and the union looks forward to working with the company to create more high-skilled jobs in the future," he went on to say.

In March of 2014 a new £45m press line was unveiled at Halewood and Jaguar Land Rover said it had now installed a massive 260 new automated robots, laser welding facilitates and brand new monitoring equipment.

Some £500m has been invested at the Merseyside plant in the previous four years.

Jaguar Land Rover also has plants in Castle Bromwich and Solihull in the West Midlands.