{"id":9389,"date":"2016-10-25T13:56:53","date_gmt":"2016-10-25T13:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=9389"},"modified":"2016-10-25T13:56:53","modified_gmt":"2016-10-25T13:56:53","slug":"what-does-it-take-to-build-a-new-van-factory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/9389","title":{"rendered":"What does it take to build a new van factory?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Volkswagen&#8217;s newest factory will build\u00a017 vehicles per hour, 380 vehicles per day and around 100,000 vehicles each year.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9390\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9390\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9390\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/vw-wrzesnia-factory-sm.jpg\" alt=\"Volkswagen factory, Wrzesnia, Poland\" width=\"650\" height=\"353\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/vw-wrzesnia-factory-sm.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/vw-wrzesnia-factory-sm-300x163.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/vw-wrzesnia-factory-sm-624x339.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/vw-wrzesnia-factory-sm-50x27.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9390\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The new Volkswagen Crafter factory in Wrzesnia, Poland<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Located in\u00a0Wrze\u015bnia, Poland, the new factory is dedicated to the production of the Volkswagen Crafter and its\u00a0badge-engineered peer, the MAN TGE van.\u00a0The factory was\u00a0completed in just 23 months, from breaking ground in November 2014 until the\u00a0start of\u00a0production in October.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an impressive lesson in how\u00a0rapidly the big automotive manufacturers\u00a0can deploy new production capacity. But what was involved in the creation of this plant? Here are a few numbers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The plant occupies an area of 220 hectares, or around 300 football fields<\/li>\n<li>During excavation, approx. 1,000,000 m\u00b3 of soil was moved with 50,000 trips by dump trucks.<\/li>\n<li>22,000 metric tonnes of structural steel and 8,000 tonnes of reinforcing steel were used.<\/li>\n<li>50,000 m\u00b3 of concrete was poured by 6,000 cement trucks.<\/li>\n<li>4,000 foundation pilings were rammed 16 metres into the ground.<\/li>\n<li>15,000 metres of utility pipe was laid in the plant.<\/li>\n<li>19,000 training sessions were performed in the framework of occupational safety.<\/li>\n<li>In the ramp-up phase, approx. 3,500 (construction) workers were employed at the plant construction site in Wrze\u015bnia.<\/li>\n<li>45 suppliers from Poland supply the plant<\/li>\n<li>Now that the plant is complete, around 3,000\u00a0employees will work a three-shift system<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/9282\">The new Crafter<\/a> also promises to be impressive and supremely flexible. The\u00a0Wrze\u015bnia factory will build a total of 69 Crafter derivatives. The Crafter will be available with a maximum gross weight of up to 5.5 tonnes and in panel format up to 7.4m long.<\/p>\n<p>Given that the population of the town of\u00a0Wrze\u015bnia is only 30,000,\u00a0one images that this new factory will have a big impact on the local economy as well as the landscape.<\/p>\n<p>What we don&#8217;t yet know is if the new Crafter &#8212;\u00a0the first\u00a0model\u00a0to be an in-house design, rather than a rebadged Sprinter &#8212; have a similar impact on the van\u00a0market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A look at the facts and figures behind the construction of Volkswagen&#8217;s newest van factory, in Poland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9390,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[2042,493,2041],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9389"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9389"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9394,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9389\/revisions\/9394"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}