Magna International of America Inc., Troy, Mich., announces plans to build a new world-class aluminum casting facility in Telford, England, to support Jaguar Land Rover, the country’s leading vehicle manufacturer. Once production begins in 2018, Magna’s high-pressure vacuum die casting process will be used to produce advanced lightweight aluminum castings — key building blocks in the next generation all-aluminum and multi-material vehicle architectures.
The new facility is expected to be approximately 225,000 square feet, and will create up to 295 jobs at full capacity. The UK Trade & Investment and the Automotive Investment Organization, along with financial support from the UK Government’s Regional Growth Fund, helped to secure this project.
“We are excited to work closely with Jaguar Land Rover in the development of this project, which will bring the most advanced structural casting technologies to the UK,” said John Farrell, President of Cosma International, an operating unit of Magna International. “As lightweighting continues to be a key technology driver, we are uniquely positioned to help automakers achieve optimal weight savings throughout the vehicle architecture.”
Construction is expected to start in the autumn of 2016.
Magna, through its Cosma International operating unit, is one of the world’s premier suppliers providing a comprehensive range of body, chassis, and engineering solutions to automakers around the world.
