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04/01/2012
Nissan Breaks UK Car Production Record
Car manufacturer Nissan has broken the UKs car manufacturing record, producing 480,485 vehicles at its Sunderland plant last year.
The output level was an increase of 14% from 2010 and a new record for a single UK car plant.
Nissan's vice president for production, Kevin Fitzpatrick, said the company limited disruption from the Japanese earthquake and tsunami by cancelling some overtime work, extending the Easter holidays and shortening the Christmas break.
The news comes in contrast to figures released on Wednesday that show British manufacturing closed 2011 with its worst quarter in over two years.
The Markit/CIPS Manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index rose to 49.6 in December from an upwardly revised 47.7 in November, data compiler Markit said.
Markit said that, over the fourth quarter as a whole, the PMI reading suggested the sector registered its worst performance since the second quarter of 2009, when Britain was mired in recession.
According to news service Reuters, other business surveys published on Tuesday escalated the gloomy mood among Britain's companies. A poll by consultancy firm Deloitte showed that company CFOs expected the economy to fall back into recession and stay weak for a prolonged period.
(DW)
The output level was an increase of 14% from 2010 and a new record for a single UK car plant.
Nissan's vice president for production, Kevin Fitzpatrick, said the company limited disruption from the Japanese earthquake and tsunami by cancelling some overtime work, extending the Easter holidays and shortening the Christmas break.
The news comes in contrast to figures released on Wednesday that show British manufacturing closed 2011 with its worst quarter in over two years.
The Markit/CIPS Manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index rose to 49.6 in December from an upwardly revised 47.7 in November, data compiler Markit said.
Markit said that, over the fourth quarter as a whole, the PMI reading suggested the sector registered its worst performance since the second quarter of 2009, when Britain was mired in recession.
According to news service Reuters, other business surveys published on Tuesday escalated the gloomy mood among Britain's companies. A poll by consultancy firm Deloitte showed that company CFOs expected the economy to fall back into recession and stay weak for a prolonged period.
(DW)
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