Jaguar Land Rover Slovakia

Jaguar Land Rover Slovakia s.r.o.
Company type	subsidiary
Industry	automotive
Founded	14 November 2015; 9 years ago in Bratislava, Slovakia
Founder	Jaguar Land Rover
Headquarters	Bratislava, Slovakia
Parent	Jaguar Land Rover Holdings
Website	www.jaguarlandrover.sk

Jaguar Land Rover Slovakia is a Slovak subsidiary of the British car producer Jaguar Land Rover, itself a subsidiary of Tata Motors.^[1]^[2] The factory is located in Nitra and production started in October 2018.^[3]^[4] It builds the Land Rover Discovery and Land Rover Defender models.

Nitra plant

The basic facts:^[5]

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.

^ "Jaguar Land Rover Automotive PLC: Annual Report 2017/18" (PDF). Jaguar Land Rover. 2018. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 September 2018. Retrieved 9 March 2019.
^ "Jaguar Land Rover begins construction of Slovakian Plant". Tata Motors (Press release). 13 September 2018. Archived from the original on 11 November 2018. Retrieved 10 November 2018.
^ "Jaguar Land Rover will commence production in Nitra in the coming weeks". The Slovak Spectator. 14 September 2018. Retrieved 10 November 2018.
^ "FOTO: Jaguar Land Rover otvoril svoj závod v Nitre". SME Ekonomika (in Slovak). 25 October 2018. Retrieved 10 November 2018.
^ "Jaguar Land Rover opens manufacturing plant in Slovakia". Jaguar Land Rover (Press release). 25 October 2018. Retrieved 10 November 2018.