Jaguar Land Rover DOUBLING size of Ingenium Engine Plant to meet demand

Jaguar Land Rover DOUBLING size of Ingenium Engine Plant

Jaguar Land Rover has revealed it is doubling the size of its Ingenium Engine Plant in the Midlands to meet growing demand from both Land Rover and Jaguar.

It’s actually only a year since the Queen officially opened Jaguar Land Rover’s new Ingenium engine plant in Wolverhampton, but it’s already too small.

JLR’s foray in to building its own engines, for the first time in a generation, is proving to be such a big success – on the back of sales for Ingenium-engined cars from both Land Rover and Jaguar, particularly the new Jaguar XE and Land Rover Discovery Sport – that JLR need to create more room to grow, so the engine plant is to double in size.

That room to grow – part of an additional £450 million investment – will allow JLR to up the production volume (50,000 engines have already been built this year) and expand the range of engines it offers too, with more petrol engines to come and perhaps, as the Ingenium engine is modular, six-cylinder versions to reduce its reliance on outside suppliers.

The expansion of the engine plan t will create several hundred new jobs, and push JLR’s workforce past the 40,000 mark. JLR CEO, Ralf Speth, said:

We are proud to be such a significant investor in advanced manufacturing in Britain and are excited by this expansion and the new jobs it will create.

The Engine Manufacturing Centre is a strategically significant facility for Jaguar Land Rover. The decision to expand our operations at the site provides a clear signal of our commitment to meeting customer demand for cleaner and more efficient engines, whilst developing the skills and capability that Britain needs if it is to remain globally competitive.

Remarkably, the Jaguar Land Rover success story continues to drive forward, and with the F-Pace arriving soon JLR are probably going to need all the engine capacity they can create.