Jaguar Land Rover Engine Manufacturing Centre

Jaguar Land Rover Engine Manufacturing Centre
Jaguar Land Rover Engine Manufacturing Centre and the M54 motorway
Built	2014
Location	Wolverhampton, England
Industry	Automotive
Products	Ingenium diesel engines Ingenium petrol engines (as of mid-2016)
Employees	700
Area	Currently being expanded to 200,000 m^2 (2,200,000 sq ft)

Jaguar Land Rover Engine Manufacturing Centre, is an engine producing factory located on the outskirts of Wolverhampton and South Staffordshire in England. It is strategically built adjacent to the M54 motorway on the i54 business park. Opened in 2014 by Elizabeth II, it currently produces Ingenium petrol and diesel engines.

Having already been expanded once in the past, in 2015 it was announced that Jaguar Land Rover would spend £450 million on doubling the size of the engine plant.^[1] Once complete, the factory's workforce will increase from 700 to 1,400 people.^[2]

Solar panels

The engine assembly plant is fitted with over 21,000 photovoltaic panels, which produce 5.8MW of energy. This accounts for more than 30% of the plant's energy requirements. The panels have enough energy to power more than 1,600 homes and reduce the plant's carbon footprint by over 2,400 tonnes per year.^[3]

References

1. "New Jaguar Land Rover jobs in Wolverhampton factory expansion". BBC News. 24 November 2015. Retrieved 14 May 2016.
2. Graeme Brown (11 November 2015). "Jobs boost as Jaguar Land Rover doubles size of engine plant". Birmingham Post. Retrieved 15 May 2016.
3. "Jaguar Land Rover Installs The UK's Largest Rooftop Solar Panel Array At Its Engine Manufacturing Centre". Jaguar Land Rover. 3 April 2014. Archived from the original on 31 May 2016. Retrieved 14 May 2016.