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CAV 50 p.c. expansion plan
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• An increase in CAV production capacity of more than 50 per cent will be provided by an expansion programme, announced on Wednesday by Mr R. G. C. Messervy, director and general manager of the company and executive chairman of Simms Motor Units which was merged with CAV two years ago. It is forecast by CAV that the international demand for diesels will increase from the current 3.3m engines a year to 4.5m in five years' time, and that British industry will continue to produce 25 per cent of the total. CAV and its affiliated companies now employ 14,000 people at eight factories in the UK.
The main projects of the expansion programme include building a new factory at Gillingham, Kent; an extension of the company's injector factory in Sudbury, Suffolk; commissioning a new factory at Colindale, North London; establishing a new service distribution centre at Acton; extending the capacity of the Roto Diesel factory in France and increasing the production of the Condiesel factory in Spain. The Gillingham factory will be a single-storey building of 200,000 sq.ft. built on a 35-acre site costing £5.7m, while the Sudbury project will increase plant capaci by 30 per cent and will cost £1.7] Production of the Simms Minimec pun will be increased by 20 per cent with t opening of the Colindale factory, which NA have an area of 60,000 sq.ft. and will cc £0.5m. Other projects include ti manufacture of DPA injection pumps Japan, which will start in the near future.
In a speech at a Press conference Wednesday, Mr Messervy said that thr was no need for diesel smoke to produced, and announced that research the company's Engineering Centre h shown that the noise level of a typical die: could be reduced by 5dB without a maj design change. If a special structure wt used the level could be brought down by much as 10dB.
After stating that CAV spent more th £1.2m annually on research ai development, Mr Messervy said that ma engine manufacturers took advantage of t company's test facilities for the developmc of their products. The new projects wot provide secure employment for additional 1100 people living in the arc mentioned.