UK – Vauxhall has celebrated 50 years of production at its Ellesmere Port facility. The first new car to be produced at the plant was the Viva HA, a model name that would run in a number of variants until 1978 when it was replaced by the Chevette. The first Astra, Vauxhall’s first front-wheel drive car, was built on November 16, 1981, and the latest variant continues in production to this day.
Recently threatened with closure, the plant’s survival into the next decade has been secured with the allocation of the next-generation Astra. Production of the new model will start in the autumn of 2015, with Ellesmere Port being the lead plant of only two producing this model across Europe.
www.vauxhall.co.uk
- Plant Functions
- Smart Factory
- Register now: Scan-First Digital Twins: A reality capture roadmap for agile, ROI-focused brownfield transformation
- Arno Güllering on harnessing shopfloor visualisation and genAI in Dräxlmaier production
- Register now - Futureproofing factories: Agility and flexibility in production
- Register now: Automotive Gateway Mobilizer - Mastering Communication Challenges in Battery and EV Components End-of-Line Tests
- Electrification
- Automation
- Sustainability
- Events
- Companies
- Materials
- Regions
- Kaizen
- Video and Audio
- Register now: Scan-First Digital Twins: A reality capture roadmap for agile, ROI-focused brownfield transformation
- Register now: Automotive Gateway Mobilizer - Mastering Communication Challenges in Battery and EV Components End-of-Line Tests
- Watch now: Digital Transformation at Inflection Point within Automotive Manufacturing
- Magazine
- Surveys & Reports
- Newsletters
- Partner Content
- Register now: Scan-First Digital Twins: A reality capture roadmap for agile, ROI-focused brownfield transformation
- Register now: Automotive Gateway Mobilizer - Mastering Communication Challenges in Battery and EV Components End-of-Line Tests
- Watch now: Digital Transformation at Inflection Point within Automotive Manufacturing
- Henkel’s advanced thermal management for ADAS reliability
- Whitepapers
- Media Pack
- Register
- Sign In