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BMW
Over the
past three decades, BMW South Africa has moved from operating as a
Completely Knocked Down (CKD) vehicle production plant, assembling
vehicles with limited customization possibilities for the local
market, to a world class plant capable of producing customized cars
for discerning customers across the globe.
This evolution is largely due to BMW's billion rand investment in
the Rosslyn plant in the mid 90's. The investment, used to upgrade
the production facility into one of the most modern in the world,
brought Rosslyn in line with other BMW plants across the world and
earned it the title of BMW World Plant Rosslyn. BMW recently
announced the decision to invest a further R2 billion into the South
African facility in preparation for the production of future models
It is anticipated that the upgraded plant will be capable of
producing up to 60 000 units per annum. This will, in turn, result
in a substantial increase in BMW's export capacity to R50 billion
worth of BMW exports from South Africa over the lifecycle of future
models.
BMW South Africa Rosslyn plant recently started with the production
of the fifth generation of the 3 Series. This was the first time in
the history of the plant that the production of the new model
happened at the same time with the German plants
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