Gauteng Business 2016 edition

OVERVIEW
plant were expected to double
to approximately 100 000 units
by 2014, creating around 800 jobs.
The BMW facility at Rosslyn is a
top manufacturer of the German
marquee’s famous 3 Series cars
and recently won a contract to
make the newest model in the
series. BMW’s current production
is about 50 000 units per annum,
approximately 80 percent of
which is destined for export markets.
The Ford Motor Company
of South Africa has an assembly
plant in Silverton, Pretoria. Ford
intends to double its production
volumes every year until 2016, and
plans to assemble 110 000 Ford
Ranger pickup trucks per year at
Silverton.
A number of different types
of vehicles – including armoured
cars and standard passenger
vehicles – are produced within
Gauteng. DCD Protected Mobility
manufactures armoured cars in
Boksburg, which are branded as
Vehicle Mounted Mine Detectors.
In nearby Benoni, BAE Systems
OMC designs and manufactures
protected vehicles. Turning to
passenger vehicles, the Nissan/
Renault plant at Rosslyn, Pretoria,
produces the Renault Sondero
hatchback, Nissan light commercial
vehicles and the Tiida and
Livina models.
Tshwane automotive
sector
In its quest to improve economic
growth, the City of Tshwane
has earmarked its automotive
sector as a bulwark to build the
Automotive City. The Tshwane
Automotive City (TAC) concept was started in 2008 as a shared vision
between Government and the automotive industry to transform the
City of Tshwane into a leading automotive investment destination. In
June 2014, the Automotive Industry Development Centre (AIDC), the
City of Tshwane (CoT) and Tshwane Economic Development Agency
(TEDA) entered into a three-year partnership that will see the completion
of the TAC Development Framework, Master Plan and Precinct
Plan TAC concept.
The TAC programme is a strategic infrastructure programme
aimed at stimulating automotive vehicle assembly and components
manufacturing in the Rosslyn area by accelerating the development
of key infrastructure such as logistics, residential, recreational
and so on through public and private partnerships. The TAC
vision is based on other well-established automotive cities such as
the Shanghai Automotive City in China, ‘The Autostad’ in Germany
and Toyota Automotive City in Japan. The TAC programme aims to
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