Judith RichardsonVice President Purchasing

Nissan Europe

Judith Richardson, Vice President Purchasing, Nissan Europe

THREE DECADES OF MANUFACTURING EXCELLENCE IN EUROPE

AUTOMOTIVE NEWS EUROPE CONGRESS

Judith Richardson, Vice President Purchasing, Nissan Europe

THREE DECADES OF MANUFACTURING EXCELLENCE IN EUROPE

AUTOMOTIVE NEWS EUROPE CONGRESS

WHAT I’LL BE COVERING TODAY

NISSAN IN THE UK

GROWTH & EXPANSION

30 YEARS OF MANUFACTURING

DECADE OF DISRUPTION

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IN THE UKNISSAN

NISSAN IN THE UK

• UK’s biggest carmaker (1 in 3 UK cars)

• Flagship manufacturing plant in Sunderland

• Nissan Design Europe in London

• Nissan Technical Centre Europe in Cranfield

• Nissan Global Training Centre

• 20,000 jobs in the UK supply chain supported

NISSAN IN SUNDERLAND

• 6,800 staff on-site

• 8 million vehicles produced since 1986

• Two cars born every minute

• 500,000 vehicles produced each year for past 3 years

• Qashqai, Juke, LEAF EV and Infiniti Q30 built here

Since the first Bluebird rolled off the production line in July 1986,

the Nissan plant in Sunderland has grown from a £50m assembly operation into the UK’s biggest car production site

HOW DID IT ALL BEGIN?

Site established in 1984 on former airfield

Production started in 1986 with 430 staff

One ‘KD’ model, Nissan Bluebird, at 12.5 cars per hour

HOW THINGS HAVE CHANGED…

2016

BATTERY PLANT

ENGINE ASSEMBLY

AXLE PLANTTRIM & CHASSIS

2

TRIM & CHASSIS

1

TEST TRACK

CASTINGS PLANT

WIND FARM

BUMPER PAINT

PAINT SHOP

GLOBAL TRAINING CENTRE

BODY SHOP

PRESS SHOP

PLASTICS MOULDING 405,712

square metres of built-up

space following

expansion for Infiniti

production

We’ve come a long way since

our very first Nissan Bluebird

rolled off the Sunderland Plant

production line in 1986 –

30 years ago!

GROWTH & EXPANSION

UK

1,200 cars

built at NMUK

every day

New Qashqai

built every

63 seconds

AND WE’RE

STILL

GROWING…

INFINITI Q30 PRODUCTION

QASHQAI LINE 2 ANNOUNCEMENT

XL PRESS LINE & PRESS SHOP

NEXT GEN JUKE ALLOCATION

QASHQAI LINE 2 PRODUCTION

2016£22m investment for additional

Qashqai capacity from 2017

Demand outstrips supply despite

record production levels

Crossover icon to feature

autonomous technology from next year

£37M INVESTMENT TO EXPAND

£37m investment in new XL press line and Press Shop extension underlines Nissan’s commitment to its UK operations, online in 2017

New 5,200 tonne press will be the most powerful in the plant’s history and will maintain exceptional build quality and competiveness of UK plant

NEXT GEN JUKE ALLOCATION

P21A reference allocation for NMUK Line 2

Start Of Production during 2018

Platform: Alliance CMF-B

£100m investmentSupplier Park Development opportunity

PAST, PRESENT AND FUTUREFrom humble beginnings in 1986 to Nissan’s desire to become the number one Asian Brand in Europe, we’ve seen a lot of change at our Sunderland Plant in three decades

STILL THE WORLD’S BEST-SELLING EV

NISSAN’S LARGEST

ELECTRIC TAXI

FLEET DEAL SIGNED

IN MADRID

MORE THAN 220,000

NISSAN LEAF

VEHICLES SOLD

GLOBALLY

50,000TH LEAF

PRODUCED IN UK

BUT EXPORTED TO

23 GLOBAL MARKETS

INVESTMENT IN R&D

TO BOOST LITHIUM-

ION BATTERY

CAPACITY

FUEL STATION OF

THE FUTURE

CONCEPT WITH

FOSTER + PARTNERS

$4BNINVESTEDIN R&D

WHAT NEXTWHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?

A DECADE OFDISRUPTION

2.4BNCARS BY 2050

XSTORAGE

+

V2G

VEHICLE TO THE NATIONAL GRID

XSTORAGE

€8,00010 YEARS SAVINGS

FORGING AHEAD.

PUSHING BOUNDARIES.

CHALLENGING NORMS.

THANK YOU

Judith Richardson, Vice President Purchasing, Nissan Europe