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THE CUMMINS engine company has announced plans to expand its diesel engine plant at Shotts in Lanarkshire to double present output.
With some financial assistance from the Scottish Development Authority, Cummins will be spending £30m over the next five years.
An extra 1,200 jobs will be made by the expansion, bringing the total labour force at Shotts to 1,600.
At the moment Cummins exports 74 per cent of the heavy-duty diesel engines made at Shotts and the new plant will have a capacity of 90 units per day.
During the design stages of the factory extension, the workforce were consulted for their views on the ideal layout.
The resulting design, says Cummins, is a spacious, airy open building of contemporary design.
Completion of the project is scheduled for 1980 with construction planned on a phased basis to ensure that existing production schedules are uninterrupted.
Cummins believes that the market for diesel engines is opening up everywhere, and the Shotts extension will enable it to compete more effectively. A NEW PARTS warehouse and headquarters complex is being planned by Volkswagen (GB).
The complex, which will Cost £7.5m, will be built at Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire.
It is expected that the project, on a 23-acre site, will be completed by the winter of 1978 although occupation of the first building is likely to be in the summer of that year.
Five regional parts warehouses will be replaced by one single unit at Milton Keynes.