Aston Martin is busy converting a former Air Force base St Athan into a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility, dedicated to produce the DBX crossover in 2019.
The Ministry of Defence (MOD) formally hands over St Athan site to Aston Martin, and the company hosted a special ceremony that launched Phase II redevelopment of the site. The site in South Wales will become the British luxury carmaker’s second UK manufacturing plant, and will create 750 direct new jobs.
Aston says, the investment into St Athan is part of Aston Martins wider industrial expansion plans which will see 1,000 new jobs created across its two manufacturing sites by 2020, with a likely further 3,000 across the supply chain and local businesses in Wales.
Phase I commenced in late 2016 when Aston Martin was first given access to part of the site and began to create the customer and staff reception areas, administration and management offices and the employee restaurant.
Phase II marks the beginning of the project that will see the three super hangars redeveloped into a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility. The new plant brings employment opportunities to South Wales; a recruitment event last year attracted 3,000 applications and already the first technicians are working on the DB11 at Gaydon, training for the highly-skilled roles they will take up at St Athan in 2020.
As for the DBX, the crossover will take the design cues from the Concept unveiled back in 2015. Not much details are available at the moment, however, Aston promises of a cutting edge engineering, modern tech, capacity of accommodating four adults in comfort, day-to-day practicality, generous luggage capacity and so on.
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