JLR to open £100m R&D centre in UK
Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) is to establish a multi-million pound technology, innovation and education centre at the University of Warwick.
The £100million National Automotive Innovation Campus (NAIC) is aimed at creating a large scale collaborative research environment, bringing together academics from the some of the UK's leading universities with engineers from JLR and its supply chain.
The state of the art centre will feature engineering workshops and laboratories, advanced powertrain facilities and the latest advanced design, visualisation and rapid prototyping technologies.
Construction is due to being in September 2014. JLR expects that it will more than double the size of its advanced research team to 500 people by the time the NAIC opens in 2016.
Dr Wolfgang Epple, Director of Research and Technology for JLR, said: "Investing in collaboration, innovation, research and education is vital if we want to be on a par with our international competitors. Our future sales success, the success of our global business – and the UK economy – lies in the engineering and innovation that will take place in NAIC.
"With a critical mass of research capability we will put the UK at the very centre of the global automotive industry - with the NAIC at its hub."
