Paul Wiseman, a general associate in the engine plant, signed up for unpaid voluntary work at the Great Western Hospital.
The new diesel-engine plant will be at Gurgaon, while its diesel-car capacity will be increased at Manesar, Mr. Bhargava said.
Some new posts will be created at the Dagenham engine plant, which will build Ford's new Panther engine, reports say.
Car giant Toyota says it is creating 70 jobs at its engine plant in Flintshire to meet an increase in demand.
The result is surprisingly compact facilities like the engine plant in Durham that crank out billions of dollars worth of products each year.
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In September, Carwyn Jones was on hand to celebrate the 20th anniversary of an engine plant on Deeside - "such an historic milestone".
The shutdown at Southampton would leave it only with an engine plant in Brigend, Wales, stamping and engine facilities in Dagenham, and a joint venture near Liverpool.
The maker of the Alto, A-Star and WagonR gasoline cars will open a 150, 000-unit-a-year diesel-engine plant and also expand its capacity to manufacture diesel cars by September to meet the expanding demand for diesel vehicles, he added.
This morning's news that Jaguar Land Rover is to site its new engine plant in Wolverhampton rather than south Wales is "good news for the UK economy" or "obviously disappointing", depending where you're sitting this morning.
Mr Atkins talks with pride about his decision, alongside neighbouring Labour-controlled Wolverhampton City Council, to pay for and build a motorway junction to ensure a new engine plant run by Jaguar Land Rover would bring 1, 450 jobs to the area.
Excluding the engine, where efficiency will reach Italian levels only when a new engine plant is opened, it takes around 21 man-hours to build a Palio in Betim, or about two hours more than it would at Melfi, the firm's most modern Italian plant.
It has a diesel-engine manufacturing plant at Manesar that can produce 300, 000 engines a year.
The rocket engine power plant runs at a 35% thermal efficiency, versus 55% for conventional gas-fired plants.
Toyota recently said it planned to boost production capacity for the 4-cylinder engine at the plant by more than 100, 000 units.
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The device, which resembles the sawed-off head of a driver golf club, uses its Plant Care Engine (or PCE as its literature so abbreviates) to detect such important plant growth criteria as water, fertilizer, humidity, temperature and light.
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The plant, called the Global Engine Manufacturing Alliance, is a joint venture among DaimlerChrysler, Hyundai and Mitsubishi.
So Ford modified the system for the Wayne plant, substituting a Stirling engine for the fuel cell.
It could eventually shut down engine and transmission factories around the world because one plant could make fuel cells for all types of vehicles.
The aero engine company GE also shed hundreds of jobs at its plant at Nantgarw near Cardiff last October.
In such a power plant, which is also known as a flat engine, the cylinders oppose each other horizontally.
Richard Kenworthy, director of the Deeside engine manufacturing factory, said the new jobs were great news for the plant and for Wales.
He said the Bridgend plant will be the sole global source of the clean energy engine and it was a "real feather in the cap" for Wales.
Folz says that he sees "perhaps better immediate opportunities" in Latin America (Argentina and Brazil in particular), Eastern Europe (Poland and Turkey) and China, where Peugeot has a joint venture with Dong Feng Motors (an auto assembly plant that can turn out 150, 000 vehicles a year plus an engine and gearbox factory).
That went towards building a petrol engine for its new Auris model and was credited with safeguarding nearly 200 jobs at the plant.
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The Welsh plant employs more than 500 people and became the first factory outside Japan to build Toyota's hybrid engine.
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