Saturday, September 3, 2011

GM is looking to Russia for a second factory site

American General Motors has decided to build a car plant Russia is another. According to "Kommersant" last week, GM has already inspected the site proposed by him in the Krasnodar region. This region, according to representatives of local authorities, interest concern because of its proximity to sea ports. Currently, GM is in talks with several Russian partners - according to "Kommersant", representatives of the group also managed to visit in the Kaluga region and in Nizhny Novgorod. The choice of site for GM there are only two months - under the previously signed agreements with the Ministry, the Americans need to decide on a place of construction of the plant no later than September. The new car plant will initially produce about 50,000 cars a year, but in future this figure may be increased. It is expected that this plant will develop assembly models of Opel and Chevrolet. What exactly - it is not known. The first factory in Russia, GM is near St. Petersburg - there will also collect cars Opel and Chevrolet, and annual capacity is about 70 thousand cars per year. Starting mass production at car plant is scheduled for November this year.

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