Renault-Nissan and Daimler establish a 50:50 joint venture
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Nissan Sentra cars are manufactured at this Nissan plant in
Aguascalientes,
Mexico (approximately 480 kilometres NW of Mexico City).
The construction site in the background will be the production
plant owned and operated by
the joint venture between
the Renault-Nissan Alliance and Daimler AG.
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- Teams will work on development of next-generation compact vehicles for both Mercedes-Benz and Infiniti
- New plant in Aguascalientes, Mexico, will add annual capacity of 300,000 vehicles when fully operational
- Companies will equally divide investment costs of approximately €1 billion
The Renault-Nissan Alliance and Daimler AG are significantly expanding their co-operation with joint development of
premium compact vehicles and joint production in Mexico.
Renault-Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn and Daimler CEO Dieter Zetsche announced on Friday (27/6/14) that their companies have
agreed to establish a 50:50 joint venture, the business entity that will oversee construction and operation of the new
plant in Aguascalientes in north-central Mexico. The new plant will be built in the vicinity of an existing Nissan plant
and will eventually have an annual capacity of 300,000 vehicles.
Start of production is planned for 2017 with Infiniti models. The production of Mercedes-Benz brand vehicles will
follow in 2018.
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Daimler and Nissan will share the total investment cost for Aguascalientes of approximately €1 billion. The companies
will add almost 5,700 jobs (including engineering, line workers and support staff) by the time the plant reaches full
capacity, expected in 2021. In addition, a high localisation rate will significantly increase the Mexican supply base.
Carlos Ghosn, Chairman and CEO of the Renault-Nissan Alliance: “Joint development of compact premium vehicles and
joint production in Aguascalientes together represent one of the largest projects between the Renault-Nissan Alliance and
Daimler. It also shows how our collaboration, which began in Europe, has become global in scope.”
Dieter Zetsche, Chairman of the Board of Management of Daimler AG and Head of Mercedes-Benz Cars: “In
Aguascalientes, we will take our successful partnership to the next level by combining the skills of our two companies
Daimler and Nissan in one production plant. Just over four years after the co-operation was founded, the decision for the
new plant in Mexico is a major milestone.”
Close collaboration between Infiniti and Mercedes-Benz at every stage of development, from advanced research and
design to production, will ensure that vehicles within the scope of the project will clearly differ from each other in
terms of product design and specifications.
Growing together in Mexico
In Aguascalientes both partners will enjoy access to Nissan’s highly efficient workforce. Nissan has been producing
vehicles in Aguascalientes since 1992, and the plant has expanded significantly in the past year.
In November, Nissan opened the first stage of a US$2 billion manufacturing complex in Aguascalientes. This increased
Nissan’s total capacity in Mexico to more than 850,000 vehicles annually.
Mexico is already an important market for Daimler. The company has production plants for trucks and buses in Saltillo,
Santiago Tianguistenco and Garcia, a parts distribution centre in San Luis Potosí and a remanufacturing plant in Toluca.
For passenger cars Daimler has a pre-delivery-inspection and a training centre.
Four years of increasing collaboration
The French-Japanese-German industrial co-operation of Daimler and the Renault-Nissan Alliance began in April 2010,
with three “pillar projects” primarily focused on Europe. Since then, the portfolio has increased to twelve significant
projects, including major initiatives from the Americas to Japan.
Just last week, Infiniti and Daimler launched production of four-cylinder petrol engines in Decherd, Tennessee, USA.
With an annual production capacity of 250,000 units, the Decherd facility produces engines for use in the Mercedes-Benz
C-Class and in the Infiniti Q50.
Later this year, the Alliance and Daimler will start selling the next-generation Smart and Renault Twingo city cars,
developed on a shared platform, the Twingo and the four-seater Smart being produced at the Renault plant in Novo Mesto,
Slovenia, the two-seater Smart in Hambach, France.
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