It was only a few weeks since Nissan announced plans to close his Oppama factory in Japan, and now it reveals a similar decision for another site. The activities in the Ciudad Industrial del Valle de Cuernavaca Industrial Park in Mexico end by March 2026. All vehicle production in Cirac will be moved to another site in Mexico, located in Aguascalientes.
Almost 60 years old, the first Nissan factory that was built outside of Japan, currently produces the border, NP300/Navara and the Versa. The Cirac factory originally produced the Datsun Bluebird from 1966, before adding a second assembly line for light trucks in 1975. To date, the 4.4 million square feet facility has built more than 6.5 million vehicles and is currently good for 11 percent of Nissan production in Mexico.
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Oppama and Civac are two of the seven factories that the company intends to close as part of the radical recovery initiative. A third confirmed closure is Plant #1 in Thailand, where production is consolidated in factory #2. According to the “Re: Nissan” strategy, the automaker wants to reduce global production from 3.5 million to 2.5 million units. It is also planning to lower the number of car factories from 17 to 10 and at the same time reach 100 percent use at the remaining locations.
Factories in India, Argentina and South Africa are also supposed to run risk, according to Reuters. In the meantime, Automotive news Nissan reports will solve its collaboration factory Aguascalientes (Compas) joint venture with Mercedes-Benz after ending the production of the QX50 and QX55 later this year. The CAP is expected to be phased out in the first quarter of 2026. There are also reports that Nissan can sell his Yokohama headquarters and lease the new owner.
Nissan has re-assigned 3,000 R&D employees to concentrate on cost reduction efforts. The move seems to be bearing fruit: around 4,000 ideas have been presented, with around 1,600 approaching implementation. This was made possible by freezing the development of certain new models to divert resources to finding cost -saving measures.
In May, the public broadcaster of Japan NHK It reported that around 20,000 jobs could be reduced – more than double the 9,000 fireds that Nissan announced last November.
Anyway, the wrestling automaker is not sugar coating of its “re: nissan” agenda, so that it is openly labeled a “recovery plan”. In addition to aggressive cost savings, the company wants to breathe new life into the sale by launching new models, renewing Infiniti and deepening cooperation with Alliance partners Renault and Mitsubishi through vehicles with badge designed.
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