Updated 04/19/2018 11:43:53 CET
MADRID, Apr. 19 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Seat plant in Relizane (Algeria) has assembled Ibiza’s 15,000th unit since the Spanish brand started its activity in the Algerian city in the spring of 2017.
620 employees work in this factory, which makes it possible for every ten minutes a new vehicle leaves the plant ready for commercialization. In total, 120 cars a day come out of its four production lines, according to the company.
The Seat template in Relizane is 100% local and has received training for four months. The workers carry out up to 1,000 verifications of the bolting per day, while the mechanisms and laces of the vehicles are double checked.
More than 50 technicians and a computerized system are involved in the assembly of cars so that the vehicles, which are produced for the first time outside of Europe, follow the same quality standards
Once the wheel axle and braking system have been checked, the vehicles circulate through seven types of irregular pavements. “In this way we check the ABS and we make sure that the customer can circulate with any condition in a totally safe way,” says Sovac’s Quality Director, Salvador Soler.
Sovac is the company with which the Volkswagen Group signed an association agreement to produce the Seat Ibiza, Skoda Octavia and Volkswagen Golf and Caddy models in the country located in North Africa.
For its part, Seat, aware that the Algerian market is “especially demanding” with the finish of the paint, revises the surface of the vehicle again, under a tunnel of light, once the driving tests have been completed.
The brand based in Martorell (Barcelona), which from next summer will also assemble in Relizane the Arona and León, has sold 7,200 vehicles in the Algerian country until March.
In this way, Algeria becomes the country in which the deliveries of the Spanish firm increase more compared to the first quarter of 2017.