Stellantis Mangualde Plant
The Stellantis Mangualde Plant, also known as CPMG (''Centro de Produção de Mangualde'') is an automotive assembly plant located in the city of Mangualde, Portugal, near Viseu. It produces Citroën Berlingo, Peugeot Partner/Rifter, Opel Combo/Combo Life, Fiat Doblò and Vauxhall Combo in conjunction with the Stellantis Vigo Plant. History The plant was founded in 1962 and began operations in 1964 with the production of Citroën Citroën 2CV, 2CV (AZL). José Coelho dos Santos, a Portuguese industrialist, purchased a license to manufacture automobiles in 1962, which was later acquired by Citroën. Its first vehicle was the model AZL, popularly known as Citroën 2CV. They produced 472 cars that year. The millionth car produced at the plant was manufactured in 2012. Timeline *1963: Purchase of 12130 m2. The factory covered an area of 8,150 m2. *1964: First vehicle, the Citroën AZL. *1967: Purchase of land for the Administration building (Accounting and Administrative Ma ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Automotive Industry
The automotive industry comprises a wide range of company, companies and organizations involved in the design, Business development, development, manufacturing, marketing, selling, Maintenance, repairing, and Custom car, modification of motor vehicles. It is one of the world's largest industry (economics), industries by revenue (from 16% such as in France up to 40% in countries such as Slovakia). The word ''automotive'' comes from the Greek language, Greek ''autos'' (self), and Latin ''motivus'' (of motion), referring to any form of self-powered vehicle. This term, as proposed by Elmer Ambrose Sperry, Elmer Sperry (1860–1930), first came into use to describe automobiles in 1898. History The automotive industry began in the 1860s with hundreds of manufacturers pioneering the Brass Era car, horseless carriage. Early car manufacturing involved manual assembly by a human worker. The process evolved from engineers working on a stationary car to a conveyor belt system where the ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |