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Skoda celebrates 80 years at Kvasiny
Czech Republic – The plant opened in 1934 and has been part of Skoda since 1947, when the Superb started rolling off the line; it now produces three models with a workforce of 4,200. The factory has turned out more than 1.5m units to date.Skoda Kvasiny currently makes the Superb, ...
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Skoda’s new head of Purchasing
Czech Republic – Dieter Seemann will replace Karlheinz Hell, who will soon become executive director of Corporate Purchasing Electric/Electronic within the Volkswagen Group. Seemann started his career at Volkswagen in 1985 with a position in the Engine Procurement department. He occupied various roles in Purchasing and Project Management before ...
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Skoda begins new Octavia Scout production
Czech Republic – The model is now rolling off the lines at the OEM’s main plant in Mladá Boleslav, ahead of its market launch at the end of August. The vehicle offers fuel consumption and emissions reductions of up to 20%. The Octavia Scout has featured in the Skoda ...
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Skoda sets to work in summer break
Czech Republic – Between August 4-15, preparations will take place at Mladá Boleslav for the production launch of the new Skoda Fabia at the end of the month. The OEM says that “extensive” maintenance and modernisation projects will also be carried out at Kvasiny and Vrchlabí.At Mladá Boleslav, Skoda will ...
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Skoda reaches 3m 1.2 HTP engines
Czech Republic – The three-cylinder engine of the EA 111 series, used in Skoda, Seat and VW vehicles, has been made at the OEM’s main plant in Mladá Boleslav since 2001; the 3m milestone was reached at the same time as the 500,000th MQ/SQ 100 gearbox.In addition to the 1.2 ...
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Skoda reaches 11m units at Mladá Boleslav
Czech Republic – The company’s main facility has been extensively modernised and expanded over the past three years, with the addition of a new bodyshop, a fully automated paintshop and a press line. The capacity of production Line 1 has increased from 800 to 1,200 vehicles per day; the ...
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Skoda Rapid runs off the line in Kaluga
Russia – The model is now being produced at the VW plant in the south west of the country ahead of market launch in April. “Through starting production in Kaluga, the Rapid has been launched in our third-strongest market worldwide,” noted Winfried Vahland, CEO of Skoda Auto, adding that ...
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Owsianski to lead Skoda’s Chinese sales
China – As executive director of Skoda Marketing and Sales Business at Shanghai Volkswagen, Thomas Owsianski will look after the brand’s marketing, sales and aftersales activities in the country. Taking over from Paul Willis, who has been appointed managing director of Volkswagen UK, Owsianski will assume his new ...
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Skoda’s Yeti appears in China
China – A special version of the vehicle, tailored for the local market with larger dimensions and an optional spare tyre on the tailgate, is now running off the production lines in China, courtesy of Skoda’s association with Shanghai Volkswagen. The market launch of the new Yeti, called ‘Ye ...
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Skoda melhora a logística na instalação Checa
Divisão da VW Skoda anunciou uma série de projetos de logística destinados a melhorar a eficiência e reduzir os custos de transporte, o qual disse que será pioneira na sua fábrica principal em Mladá Boleslav, na República Checa. A primeira das três inovações concebidas pela empresa é a implementação de ...
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Skoda улучшает логистику на чешском заводе
Подразделение VW Skoda объявило о серии логистических проектов, нацеленных на улучшение эффективности перевозок и снижение затрат. Испытание проектов будет проводиться на основной производственной площадке в Младе Болеславе, Чешская Республика. Во-первых, будут внедрены новые контейнеры для перевозки рулей управления. Контейнеры имеют меньший вес и большую площадь (на 20%) по сравнению ...
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Skoda still top manufacturer in Central Europe
Czech Republic: Skoda is the largest manufacturing company in Central Europe for the third consecutive year, according to the Deloitte CE Top 500 report. Using fi gures from 2012, the study compared the 500 highest-revenue companies across 18 countries, including 84 from the Czech Republic. The company has a ...
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Skoda’s second-best seller reaches 1.5m mark
Czech Republic – Skoda has now manufactured 1.5m secondgeneration Fabias since 2007. The milestone 1.2 TDi rolled off the production line in September at the main factory in Mladá Boleslav, Czech Republic. The Fabia fi rst went on sale in 1999 and is the car-maker’s bestselling model after ...
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Big numbers for Skoda engine and car production
Czech Republic – Skoda has built the eleven-millionth engine in its corporate history – an EA211 series 1.4 TSI motor. Currently producing 1.2- and 1.4-litre versions of the EA211 and EA111 engine series, the Mladá Boleslav plant’s 3,600 employees manufacture up to 4,400 units every day. The manufacturer says ...
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Skoda’s contract partners to produce Octavia
Czech Republic – Skoda is now producing the new Octavia with local partner companies in Kazakhstan and Ukraine, as well as at GAZ Group’s factory in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. In the Ukraine, vehicle production takes place in Solomonovo in partnership with Eurocar. The Fabia, Yeti, Superb and Roomster are ...
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Skoda começa montagem do Octavia na Índia
A Skoda começou a produção do novo Octavia em sua fábrica em Aurangabad, na Índia, que é montado a partir de kits desmontados na República Checa. O novo Octavia, que foi lançado na Europa no final de 2012, chega à Índia seguindo investimentos para reduzir os custos de fabricação e ...
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Skoda начинает сборку Octavia в Индии
Skoda начала производство новой Octavia на заводе в Аурангабаде в Индии. Сборка ведется на основе китов, поставляемых из Чешской Республики. Новая Octavia была запущена в Европе в конце 2012 года. Производство было решено наладить на индийских заводах автопроизводителя (в Пуне и Аурангабаде) в целях снижения производственных и логистических затрат. ...
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Success at Skoda is a digital process
Skoda is making more cars than ever, and the success of its venture is being supported by DELMIA digital factory solutions Process Engineer for integrated product and process planning, and the DELMIA V5 DPM Assembly for assembly planning Shared processes Assembly planning After the end of the Cold War, Czech ...
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