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The Japanese producer Nissan and the German Mercedes-Benz are in a strategy of adjusting manufacturing inside the Cooperation Manufacturing Plant Aguascalientes (Compas) plantfor the manufacture of electrical autos in Mexico sooner or later, so each corporations are analyzing their potentialities to take over the advanced, defined Tere Jiménez, governor of Aguascalientes.
In an interview after taking part within the Coparmex Nearshoring Talks Discussion board 2024: Challenges for the brand new Authoritiesthe governor identified that whereas this adjustment happens within the cooperation plant of the Nissan-Renault and Daimler alliance, it’s not anticipated to have an effect on the manufacturing of autos or the employment of 1000’s of employees.
“Compas are companions Germany and Japan, Nissan and Mercedes, they’re making a change proper now, a restructuring within the concern of electrical vehicles, so proper now we’re making this modification (…) Everybody desires to purchase Compas, that is the difficulty. Japan desires to purchase Compas, Germany desires to purchase Compas, as a result of electrical vehicles are coming, whereas this transformation is occurring there’s a readjustment in your complete trade,†he stated in an interview.
In latest days, the information emerged that employees on the Compas plant the place Mercedes-Benz and Infiniti model fashions are manufactured would have been relocated or laid offwhereas manufacturing was stopped.
On this regard, Nissan responded to a request for info made by The monetary that “at Nissan Mexicana we’re conscious of the Separation Plan that Compas introduced,” nevertheless the Japanese automaker assured that continues with its typical operations in all its vegetation: Aguascalientes 1, Aguascalientes 2 and Powertrain.
Tere Jiménez highlighted that since a yr in the past, 26 investments associated to electromobility arrived in Aguascalientes, with out specifying the quantity, along with the 155 corporations within the automotive cluster within the state that drive the sector. She commented that there’s additionally curiosity from round about 50 automotive corporations of China, United States, Germany, Japan, Turkey and India to settle within the hydro-warm state.
“Nissan, the most important producer within the state, has been making important investments in its vegetation and is already getting ready the brand new model of the Nissan Kicks. They’ve simply notified us this yr that Kicks 2025 is coming and proper now it’s that change, together with Compas on {the electrical} theme,†he concluded.
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