It will initially supply seating foam to support vehicle production at Sunderland's Nissan plant.
According to the Economist Intelligence Unit, a sister company of The Economist, Nissan Sunderland has the highest productivity of any car plant outside Asia.
Nissan's Sunderland factory, the biggest in Britain, making more than 330, 000 cars a year, is reckoned to be the most efficient in Europe.
British carmakers come late to the market but, in a positive sign of things to come, Nissan announced on March 20th a partnership with One North East, a regional-development agency, that may lead to the production of electric cars at Nissan's Sunderland plant.
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At the Nissan car factory near Sunderland in the North East, this strategy seems to be working.
Nissan's car plant in Sunderland is seen as a model in this respect.
On a chilly, overcast Friday in mid-March, Ghosn, on Renault duty in Paris, boards his jet and touches down less than an hour later in Newcastle, England to visit a Nissan plant 40 minutes away in Sunderland.
Sunderland had already been named as the site to produce Nissan's electric car batteries, creating 350 new jobs.
Nissan's plan had been to expand Sunderland's output to 500, 000 cars a year, with the introduction of a new version of its Micra car.
Car firm Nissan has announced it is creating 50 new jobs at its Sunderland plant.
Ghosn hasn't been to the Sunderland factory in almost four years, and Colin Dodge, senior vice president of industrial operations for Nissan Europe, is eager to update him on efforts to boost productivity, improve quality and protect profits against currency fluctuations.
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