Nissan Motor Co. said Monday it will build a 5.1 billion yen facility near Tokyo to consolidate its global production engineering functions at one site.
Construction on the 30,000-sq.-meter facility in Zama, Kanagawa Prefecture, will begin next month, with operations expected to start in March 2007, the automaker said. The facility is expected to create up to some 350 new jobs.
Currently, Nissan's assembly plants around the world conduct their own trial production and quality analysis. By concentrating these functions at the new facility, the firm aims to make the procedure more efficient while maintaining quality standards on a worldwide basis.