Nissan’s Canton vehicle assembly plant has “gone global” after building its first redesigned 2015 Murano today (5 November), the first time the model has been produced in the US.
Canton is now the company’s worldwide hub for Murano production, expanding export opportunities from the plant to more than 100 markets.
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Bringing Murano production to the United States is part of Nissan’s broader strategy to build where it sells, and it moves Nissan closer to achieving its goal of having 85% of the vehicles it sells in the US produced in North America by 2015.
Murano is the eighth model built at Canton and is assembled on the same line as the Xterra, Frontier, Titan and Armada.
Nissan added 1,300 jobs – including nearly 400 supplier jobs – in Canton to support Murano production. Since its opening in 2003, Nissan has grown Canton from a regional manufacturing facility to a global one, spending nearly $2.8bn on the plant. With the addition of these jobs, the plant has grown to support more than 6,000 manufacturing jobs for the first time in its 11-year history.
