The French-Italian automotive large says it’s making plans extra funding to make stronger its different UK manufacturing unit at Ellesmere Port as the United Kingdom’s sustainable, EV-only quantity production plant.
Stellantis says a plan to consolidate its factories in the United Kingdom will come with the closure of its manufacturing unit in Luton. Some 1,100 jobs are probably misplaced.
The Luton plant recently builds Vauxhall petrol and diesel trucks and was once because of get started production battery-electric mild industrial cars (LCV) for Vauxhall, Citroën, Peugeot and Fiat electrical trucks subsequent yr.
Now, alternatively, Stellantis says it’s making plans to put money into its different UK-based manufacturing unit Ellesmere Port to the place they target to switch probably the most present operations of the Luton manufacturing unit.
Stellantis mentioned in a commentary that they’re on a venture to create “an all-electric, sustainable automobile hub at its Ellesmere Port web page in Cheshire thru a £50 million funding”.
The corporate introduced that they began talks with the unions and staff about relocating “masses of jobs” to the Ellesmere Port web page and “committed activity improve” for individuals who keep.
Union Unite replied to the announcement, pronouncing, “The proposal that has been tabled as of late has been a whole slap in face for our participants in Luton, the place Vauxhall cars had been manufactured for 120 years”, including that the verdict “isn’t applicable”.
Stellantis, which additionally owns manufacturers together with Citroen, Peugeot and Fiat, is going through the similar issues as different main Ecu automotive makers and suffering to promote vehicles as EV gross sales stay sluggish.
The corporate in 2021 invested £100m (€120m) in Ellesmere Port to change into the power to battery-electric LCV manufacturing, making it the primary battery-electric vehicle-dedicated plant globally for Stellantis.
“We stand in a position to improve our participants in doing no matter we will be able to to make sure that historic automobile production is maintained in Luton and we name at the govt to do the similar”, added the unions of their commentary.