Jaguar Land Rover invests £45 million in Halewood factory

A brand new 'servo' stamping line, the very first of their kind to become built inside the UK, is installed at Jaguar Land Rover's Halewood plant with a price of £45 million. The new line includes a combined press stamping capacity of a couple 7900 tonnes. It‘ll stamp both steel and aluminium panels for cars produced in the factory, currently the Land Rover Freelander 2 and also the Range Rover Evoque. In a position to handle more weight and work on higher speeds than traditional mechanical presses, the new line is much more efficient, and likewise includes an energy recovery system which draws energy from its action and converts it to electricity. Jaguar Land Rover says the press's design enables the workers to alter its metal moulds within five minutes, when compared with the 55 minutes it might usually take using older presses. Around 700 panels are produced in the Halewood site every hour, adding up to some total of a couple 25 million each year. The firm says trial pressings by using the new line will begin next month before full-scale stamping starts in summer time. By autumn, JLR officials say the line ought to be making as much as 20 strikes per minute. Jaguar Land Rover invests £45 million in Halewood factory