Assembly of kits in the market place
Assembly of kits in the market place
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Which automotive manufactures are involved in the assembly of completely knock down(kits) in the marketplace i.e. outside of their own country of residence
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Assembly of kits in the market place
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RE: Assembly of kits in the market place
The web is the place to get an answer much more in depth than I can give here unless you get down to specifics.
Rod
RE: Assembly of kits in the market place
CKD (complete knock down) is an industry term for building a kit of a car that is in production, exporting it, and then assembling it elsewhere.
For instance when I was at LandRover we built CKD kits for Africa, and probably Australia.
As to who still does it - I don't know. It's not very efficient since you are typically carrying a lot of tarriff on the parts, and assembly labour in the destination country only represents a saving of 10% or so on the cost of the car.
Quality control is obviously a big issue.
Cheers
Greg Locock
RE: Assembly of kits in the market place
Seriously, we used to do the same thing on Glass bottle machinery, the reason being to skirt the import tarriff, as well as to get our goods in at least 1 country ( I forget which ) that made it difficult to get goods not made in their country in.
RE: Assembly of kits in the market place
Rod