The UK’s car industry plans to create 15,000 new jobs and 200 fresh projects in its supply chain over the next three years.
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The sector hopes to capitalise on over £6 billion of investment in the last two years and an 8% rise in production in 2012.
The number of cars manufactured in the UK is expected to double between 2009 and 2017, hitting 2 million per year.
Chief executive of the Automotive Investment Organisation Joe Greenwell said: “The goal is to maintain and extend this momentum. I want to remove reasons why people may not want to come here.
“We need to recapture and repatriate business that we lost in the past few decades, business that went elsewhere to places like western and eastern Europe and Asia. We want to get it back.”
The Automotive Investment Organisation was set up earlier this year as part of a £3 million government scheme to boost the car manufacturing supply chain.
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