General Motors has invested 550 million euros in its plant here to create the production line for the new Opel Corsa.

The Figueruelas plant, which produces more than 400,000 vehicles annually with 7,500 employees, has become the largest European factory operated by GM. Since the factory was opened in 1982, it has assembled the Opel Corsa and Opel Meriva models.

In July, the first unit of the new Corsa model came off the production line. The model is the fourth generation of this format. Experts in manufacturing at the Aragon plant have worked closely with the International Technical Development Center in Ruesselsheim to prepare the production line. They have jointly defined all the production phases to assemble the Corsa both in Zaragoza and the Eisenach plant in Germany.

GM has improved its capacity to compete in Europe with these investments in its productive processes in Zaragoza, said Carl-Peter Foster, chairman of GM Europe.

The “latest investments in Zaragoza clearly show that our Spanish factory is still one of the most robust pillars in our network of manufacturing installations at General Motors Europe,” he pointed out.

GM has invested about 14,000 million euros in modernizing its Western European factories during the past five years.

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