All Seat articles

  • Markus-Haupt_03_HQ
    Article

    Seat: Digital tools, shopfloor innovations and multi-brand manufacturing

    2023-04-17T19:14:00Z

    Markus Haupt has returned to his professional roots in Barcelona. As the board member in charge of production and logistics, he now has the fortunes of Seat’s manufacturing operations in his hands

  • AP special edition smart factory
    Magazine

    Smart Factory Special Edition - Automobil Produktion

    2023-04-14T15:15:00Z

    Read about the latest developments in Industry 4.0 featuring SEAT, Audi and more from AMS sister publication Automobil Produktion in this special edition for the Hannover Messe

  • BMW Brilliance Automotive plant Lydia, China
    Article

    China: European, US and Japanese Vehicle Manufacturers rebalance production and supply chains

    2023-03-28T10:00:00Z

    AMS looks at the changing role of the Chinese operations of European and other long established brands’ operations in China and their changing roles in the global auto sector

  • Seat Martorell site
    News

    Seat’s Martorell site celebrates 30th anniversary

    2023-02-27T16:14:00Z

    The Martorell, Spain, factory has built more than 12m units of 45 car models in the past 30 years

  • VW Lab in Salzgitter
    News

    Volkswagen launches battery cell-making company PowerCo

    2022-07-08T17:03:00Z

    PowerCo could produce enough cells for 3m electric vehicles a year by 2030 across six ‘standardised’ European gigafactories.

  • Seat_VW
    News

    VW and Seat announces €10 billion EV investment to electrify Spain

    2022-05-10T10:39:00Z

    Volkswagen AG and Spanish OEM SEAT S.A will be investing €10 billion ($10.6 billion) into a huge electrification strategy in Spain, supporting the localisation of electric vehicle and battery output.

  • VW ID.3 production dresden battery pack
    Analysis

    EV battery supply chains on the move

    2021-06-08T13:34:00Z

    As electric vehicles become serious business for OEMs, they are reassessing their battery supply and manufacturing bases, putting their eggs in multiple baskets and taking more control of the process.

  • SEAT Effibot AMR robot
    Article

    Seat adds logistics cobots at Martorell

    2021-05-10T14:36:00Z

    Spanish carmaker Seat has started using two autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) at its plant in Martorell for the picking of parts from its onsite storage warehouses.

  • VW ID3 Platform
    Article

    Carmakers pledge to switch to all-electric vehicles

    2021-03-15T19:57:00Z

    The wave of electrification is slowly turning into a tsunami, in Europe at least. Illya Verpraet takes a look at some of the big manufacturing plans in 2021

  • Christian Friedl Director SEAT Martorell with Leon
    Article

    Christian Friedl takes over as director of Seat Martorell

    2020-12-08T12:11:00Z

    Christian Friedl is moving from Porsche to become director of Seat’s Martorell plant in Spain, starting from January 1. He replaces Rainer Fessel, who is moving to take over the management of the VW factory in Wolfsburg.

  • SEAT-will-conduct-PCR-testing-on-its-15000-employees-so-they-can-return-to-work_01_HQ
    Article

    SEAT restart plan includes huge programme of Covid-19 testing

    2020-04-23T15:53:00Z

    A planned production restart for Martorell from 27 April will be backed by an ambitious testing programme covering thousands of SEAT workers

  • Seat Relizane Algeria
    Article

    AMS on Africa: Part 2 – Algeria thinks big

    2020-02-11T09:41:00Z

    Algeria has ambitions to be the Africa’s next major automotive manufacturing hub and the OEMs are lining up to make it happen

  • SEAT-begins-its-electric-offensive-by-introducing-the-Mii-Electric-on-its-inaugural-SEAT-on-Tour_03_HQ
    Article

    Success for Seat

    2019-08-19T16:19:00Z

    Spain’s biggest exporter has turned its finances around and looks to have a bright future. Ian Henry reports

  • Luca de Meo, SEAT
    Article

    Interview: Luca de Meo, CEO, SEAT

    2019-06-25T09:06:00Z

    Seat has a long history of making affordable and reliable cars, but how will the company continue to do so while also electrifying its line up? Michael Nash sits down with Luca de Meo to find out

  • SEAT Martorell paintshop 1
    Article

    SEAT Martorell paintshop

    2019-05-14T15:07:00Z

    SEAT Martorell produces the Ibiza, Arona, Leon and Audi A1. The plant has seen a substantial €23m investment to automate one of the lines in the paintshop and install a new colour booth for painting the two-tone bodies of the Arona and A1

  • SEAT Tarraco
    Article

    Wolfsburg plant makes SEAT Tarraco

    2018-10-22T11:52:25Z

    Germany - Volkswagen's Wolfsburg plant has started making the SUV, which is based on the MQB platform. This marks the first time in 20 years that the facility will make a model without the VW badge, the last of which was the SEAT Arosa in 1998. "The car was completely ...

  • Audi A1 Martorell
    Article

    SEAT plant starts Audi A1 production

    2018-10-16T10:30:17Z

    Spain - The compact car is now being made at the SEAT plant in Martorell, which is located about half an hour from Barcelona. It was previously made at Audi's plant in Brussels. "Over the last years, the Martorell plant with its highly qualified employees has produced our Audi Q3 ...

  • SEAT Algeria Ibiza Leon and Arona
    Article

    SEAT starts assembling Arona and Leon

    2018-07-27T12:30:50Z

    Algeria - The Spanish OEM has started building the two models in the city of Relizane, Algeria, at a plant owned by the Volkswagen Group and Sovac. It already assembles the Ibiza here, but as SEAT vice president for marketing and sales Wayne Griffiths explained, localising Arona and Leon assembly ...

  • SEAT Relizane
    Article

    SEAT to steer VW in North Africa

    2018-06-22T13:10:21Z

    Spain - The Spanish OEM will reportedly start coordinating the strategy of VW Group in the region as it hopes to decentralise its territorial structure and improve efficiency. The news comes soon after SEAT started making the Ibizia in Algeria. "The VW Group has trusted SEAT with being the lead ...

  • SEAT Martorell Plant
    Article

    SEAT increases production at Martorell

    2018-04-30T11:26:42Z

    Spain - The number of cars made at the plant rose by 12.3% during the first quarter of 2018, reflecting the sales success of the Ibizia, Arona and Leon. As a result, the company is hiring an additional 250 people to work at the factory. "As our commercial and production ...