Jaguar Land Rover Slovakia is a Slovak subsidiary of the British car producer Jaguar Land Rover, itself a subsidiary of Tata Motors. The factory is located in Nitra and production started in October 2018. It builds the Land Rover Discovery and Land Rover Defender models.
Nitra plant
The basic facts:
- the €1.4bn (£1bn) manufacturing facility in Nitra was opened on 25 October 2018
- from about 1500 employees 30 per cent are women
- all manufacturing employees are educated in the new Training Academy for 12 weeks
- the facility area is about 300,000 square meters and the planned annual capacity is 150,000 vehicles
- as the first in Europe the plant uses Kuka's Pulse carrier system with over 30 per cent faster transfer times.