General Motors Europe’s Opel division has announced an additional spend of EUR60m (US$77m) at its Szentgotthárd plant in western Hungary to boost output by 70,000 engines per year to 670,000 and create 100 new jobs.
In February, Opel said it was spending EUR130m this year on the newly-built flexible plant where series production of its new generation, 1.6-litre, four-cylinder SIDI (spark ignition direct injection) Ecotec Turbo engines at the beginning of the month.
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Szentgotthárd opened in 1991, originally to assemble the Astra and Vectra, but now concentrates on engines, cylinder heads, truck transmissions and engine parts. The original plant produces 400,000 engines a year.
The second engine plant was inaugurated in 2012.
Szentgotthárd is the sole producer of Opel’s Family I (1.6–1.8 litre petrol and diesel) engines for Europe and also supplies engines and manufactured engine parts for other GM brands.
