Hyundai ix35 production starts in Caoa Country

ANÁPOLIS, GO-Hyundai Caoa began manufacturing the ix35 utility flex at the factory of Anápolis (Goiás). The automaker is expected to produce 24 million vehicle units per year. The model, which was brought from the launch, in 2010, of South Korea, will be made in Brazil meeting the conditions laid down in the federal Government's Innovation Program Auto.
Companies enabled the program must follow a series of requirements of technology investments to stay out of 30 percentage points increase in the tax on industrialized products (IPI) announced in 2011. According to the Caoa Group President, Antonio Maciel Neto, the car produced in Goiás has 60% domestic content.
Even produced in the country, the price ($ 94.9 million) will not be reduced because of the utility to get rid of the import tax. The ix35 flex which went on sale last Wednesday, comes equipped with FM/AM radio, CD Player, GPS, Bluetooth, rear view camera, USB, MP3 and auxiliary input.
To include the production of the ix35 in activities of Annapolis was required an investment of $ 600 million, according to the Caoa group. The plant, whose production capacity has risen to 86 thousand units, already was the Tucson SUV and light trucks HR and HD 78.
With the investment, the production system now has ten robots, responsible for half of the welding work, a requirement for the design of the model. A team of Brazilian engineers traveled to the matrix of Hyundai in South Korea to assimilate the technology.
The physical space of the factory, built about six and a half years ago, was extended in 30 thousand square meters, reaching a total of 174 thousand square meters. A new building was erected for the testing of quality in every car manufactured.
Carlos Alberto de Oliveira Andrade, the Group's founder and currently Chairman of the Board of Directors of the company, said yesterday that you wish to bring other Hyundai model to Brazil, but the decision on what will be the utility has not yet been closed. Hyundai's partnership with the Caoa was responsible for bringing the brand to Brazil and currently liable for vehicles produced in Goiás and for those who are still being imported. The information is from the newspaper O Estado de s. Paulo.