9.21Changan Ford to start building third plant this week

Changan Ford to start building third plant this week

 

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third-plant-this-week.html

 

Shanghai, September 21 (Gasgoo.com) Ford Motor Co and its Chinese partner
Changan Motor will start building their third plant in Chongqing, China on
September 25 to catch up with the sales growing pace in the market. 

 

Construction on the new plant, which is designed to produce 100,000 vehicles
per year initially with the potential to expand to 300,000 units a year in
future, will be completed by the first half of 2010. The new plant will
mainly produce SUVs, crossovers, Focus and Mondeo models. 

 

The new plant would boost Changan Ford Automobile Co's total production
capacity to 510,000 units, paving the way for further expansions. The joint
venture's existing two plants are located in Chongqing and Nanjing
respectively, with capacity of 250,000 and 160,000 units each. 

 

Sales of Ford brand cars at Changan Ford grew 111% in August from a year
earlier to 21,127 units, representing the seventh month of year-on-year
growth for the U.S. automaker in China. 

 

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