List of Kia design and manufacturing facilities#.C5.BDilina Plant

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The Kia Motors Slovakia, s.r.o. is an automobile manufacturer and engine manufacturer with headquarters in the Slovak Teplička nad Váhom. On February 13, 2004, the company in the commercial register of the city of Žilina ( Žilina German ) was founded on February 26, under number 15074 / L entered. Around 3900 workers are employed currently distributed between three layers.

Plant management

The approval for construction of the plant was handed over on 18 March 2004 during a ceremony in Bratislava by the Prime Minister Mikuláš Dzurinda to the CEO of Hyundai Kia Automotive Group, Chung Mong- koo. The factory is a wholly owned subsidiary of Kia Motors Corporation. To the President and CEO of Kia Motors Slovakia has been appointed In -Kyu Bae. Chang Kyun Han got the post of executive director. 2010 items were reassigned. So Myung- Chul Chung held the position as President and CEO. In -Kyu Bae, the lower position is one of two directors fell, so he pushed the predecessor Chang Kyun Han. Finally took Eek- Hee Lee in January 2012 the position as President and CEO after Myung- Chul Chung had announced to want to return to South Korea.

Factory data

The factory site of the company covers a total area of ​​166 hectares, of which 56.8 hectares cultivated. The ceremonial foundation stone was laid in April 2004 although the work started only in October 2004 and finally completed in December 2005. For the establishment Kia had estimated an investment in the amount of 1 billion euros. Around 300,000 vehicles to be assembled annually here. From 2010 to the year 2011 there has been a work in extension of the engine compartment to increase the capacity because of the ever-increasing demand. Around 100 million euros had cost the construction of the new building. This now includes 44 hectares of built-up area. The annual capacity of the engine production was increased to 450,000 units. The factory site covers also the villages of the districts Nededza, Mojš and Gbelany and can be found along the road of 2nd order 583.

Currently, Kia Motors Slovakia exported to 44 countries. Approximately 2 percent of the vehicles produced in Slovakia remain in their own country.

Company History

Once the work was the construction of the assembly and production plants began. The assembly line was built as the first, to immediately begin the assembly of CKD kits of the Kia Sorento. The contract for this was granted by the parent company, as the number of orders exhausted the capacity of the bus - station. So a lot of the components were already a few months earlier incorporated into a South Korean interim storage, which is why leave out read older monthly data from the vehicle identification number on some vehicles in the early assembly time. A short time later they took on the production of diesel and gasoline engines. Since then the company is considered to be the only automaker in the Slovakia, which also operates its own engine.

The pre-production of the Project ED began on 9 June 2006. Should be the first European car model of the South Korean brand Kia. To series production, which began on December 6, several different design studies have been presented. The model name set with respect to its task, the entry-level model of the European market will be too, poses a challenge should first derivation and merging between the concepts Seed ( seed / seed ) and European Deisgn ( European design ) can be found. But could not find any meaningful naming to be found. So you just came in the next step to an easier consensus and chose for the English see it ( see it / see), which was transformed into an unusual dialect term, namely in the current cee'd. This simplification is concluded ultimately prove the concept Creation of European engineering design, although it is not consistent with the expected merge in harmony, but ultimately was retained as the final term at Kia. Thus, the name Kia cee'd was found. In addition, we introduced other names and short forms for the other model variants. So named as the Sporty Wagon Combi is short Kia cee'd sw called. The coupe has the name Sporty proletariat, but is better known in its short form Kia cee'd per. The exhibition presented the convertible, but ultimately remained as it suggests the name, a concept study. In the short form of the name was excee'd Kia.

The Kia Sportage in June 2007, followed the next product of the Slovak Kia plant. He falls in particular by the darker headlights. Not even a year later, you already subjected him to a facelift. Meanwhile dealt one to a revision of the cee'd model range, which then in July learned their implementation at the Fünftürern. Then you upgraded to the assembly line for the Hyundai ix35. Production of the new sport utility vehicles began in September. But could the full production which will be taken until January, because the overlapping of the Sorento kits had been used up until December. Subsequently, the concentration was on the expansion of the engine plant and the upcoming launch of the new generation of the Kia Sportage. Was not until the spring of 2011, then last but not least also the pro_cee'd the new design, which has been reacted with his relatives two years earlier. Among other things, the work took over production of the Kia Venga.

For spring 2012, the launch of the second generation cee'd is announced.

Model Overview

• Inside the vehicle identification number, the company uses the World Manufacturer Code U5Y for passenger cars and U6Z for sport utility vehicles. At the eleventh position of the letter L can be found as factory code.
• For the assembly of vehicles Kia Motors awarded under the World Manufacturer Code KNE the factory code 5 classification as Pass Car as assigned assembly outside South Korea.

Certifications

• ISO 14001:2005 ( November 2007, Det Norske Veritas)
• ISO 9001:2008 (November 2008)