{"id":117155,"date":"2015-02-16T23:00:56","date_gmt":"2015-02-16T22:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gtspirit.com\/?p=117155"},"modified":"2015-02-16T08:33:54","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T07:33:54","slug":"mercedes-benz-starts-work-on-brazilian-factory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/2015\/02\/16\/mercedes-benz-starts-work-on-brazilian-factory\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercedes-Benz Starts Work on Brazilian Factory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gtspiritmedia.com\/gtspirit\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Mercedes-C-Class-production-0.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gtspiritmedia.com\/gtspirit\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Mercedes-C-Class-production-0-640x346.jpg\" alt=\"Mercedes-C-Class-production-0\" width=\"640\" height=\"346\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-117208\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/category\/supercars\/mercedes\/\" title=\"Mercedes\">Mercedes-Benz<\/a> has just broken ground on its new Brazilian production facility located in Iracem\u00e1polis.<\/p>\n<p>Found near Sao Paulo, production at the plant will commence in the first quarter of 2016 with the W205-generation Mercedes-Benz C-Class. Following on from that, local production of the GLA will start in the middle of 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Discussing the facility, President of Mercedes-Benz do Brasil and the chief executive of Latin America, Philipp Schiemer said, \u201cWith the new Mercedes-Benz plant in Iracem\u00e1polis, we will be the only company producing the full vehicle range in Latin America \u2013 from passenger cars and vans to trucks and buses. The new plant in Iracem\u00e1polis is further proof to our commitment to Brazil.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gtspiritmedia.com\/gtspirit\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Mercedes-Brazil-plant-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gtspiritmedia.com\/gtspirit\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Mercedes-Brazil-plant-1-696x385.jpg\" alt=\"Mercedes-Brazil-plant-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-117209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Mercedes-Brazil-plant-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Mercedes-Brazil-plant-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Mercedes-Brazil-plant-1-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Mercedes-Brazil-plant-1-1068x712.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Mercedes-Brazil-plant-1.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Iracem\u00e1polis factory will initially produce 20,000 cars annually but the German marque has revealed production could be increased markedly if necessary. All told, the equivalent of $180.5 million is being invested into the plant with it pinned to create 3000 jobs once production starts and 600 construction jobs in the meantime.<\/p>\n<p>When speaking about the crucial role the workers will play at the Mercedes-Benz Iracem\u00e1polis factory, member of the Divisional Board Mercedes-Benz Cars, Manufacturing and Supply Chain Management, Markus Schafer said, \u201cMachines don\u2019t develop, build, or sell cars \u2013people do. That\u2019s why our focus is on our employees. With this approach, Iracem\u00e1polis will be one of the most flexible plants in our global production network, indicating our future trend.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mercedes-Benz has just broken ground on its new Brazilian production facility located in Iracem\u00e1polis. Found near Sao Paulo, production at the plant will commence in the first quarter of 2016 with the W205-generation Mercedes-Benz C-Class. Following on from that, local production of the GLA will start in the middle of 2016. Discussing the facility, President [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":117209,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[10],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117155"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}