Not so long ago, we told you that the British automaker Bentley would be opening up a new R&D center that would cost the company somewhere around £40M. Well, it seems that now, another British automaker is trying to follow suit. Rolls-Royce, one of the world’s top luxury automakers, has officially announced its plan to establish a new logistics and technology center.
As a matter of fact, according to the company, construction work has been going on for quite a while and that the new building will have become completely operational when the year 2016 finally comes. The ground that will be the base of the building was already broken back in November this year and it has been leveled ever since so that the company can start building the new facility on it.
This new logistics and technology center will be situated at a venue known as the Oldlands Farm Business Park, somewhere around the northern part of Bognor Regis. One possible reason why the British company chooses this venue is perhaps because it is not too far from the company’s Goodwood base in the West Sussex, England. There are only eight miles to cover traveling back and forth between the two facilities.
The establishment of Rolls-Royce’s new logistics and technology center also coincides with the company’s 110th anniversary. The company recently celebrated this particular event at a hotel in Manchester, called the Midland Hotel, where a number of very well-known founding partners of the company took the decision to secure a contract with the luxury British brand.
This new logistics and technology center will be home to 200 new employees that will work side by side with the company’s 1,500 employees that are currently working at the company’s base at Goodwood. The new facility will cover an area measuring 30,000 square meters wide. So far, it is known that the facility will be in charge of at least three roles, as a car preparation workshop, a center for vehicle part distribution and also as a production part inbound warehouse.
Additionally, the facility is also going to benefit from a new stretch of road that will open come February next year, the Bognor Regis Northern Relief Road.
