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Ram Vans Australia (RTA) is about to maneuver into a brand new facility in Melbourne’s south, because the model celebrates 10 years within the nation.
Greater than 35,000 Ram pickups have been remanufactured from left- to right-hand drive (RHD) since RTA started working in December 2015 – lighting the fuse for the burgeoning factory-backed US pickup market in Australia.
Ram partnered with Walkinshaw Automotive in Clayton – the corporate behind Holden Particular Automobiles – to make sure RHD automobile growth and conversion met or exceeded the automaker’s authentic manufacturing facility high quality requirements.
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The success of the Ram 1500,2500, and 3500 in Australia noticed Chevrolet observe Ram shortly into the market with the Silverado, earlier than Ford and Toyota joined the fray with the F-150 and Tundra, respectively.
RTA says its new state-of-the-art facility in Dandenong will “carry new efficiencies to the remanufacturing course of, and goals to safe the way forward for Ram Vans Australia and the workers who work on this expert and specialised space of the native automotive trade”.
Near 300 workers work on the Ram manufacturing line, with the pickup serving to to maintain an estimated 3000 individuals in jobs throughout the nation.
“As the most important vendor of US pickups in Australia – with greater than 35,000 automobiles remanufactured over the previous 10 years – we imagine this transfer will enhance efficiencies and assist safe the roles of 200 manufacturing facility staff and roughly 50 engineering employees who remanufacture Ram Vans Australia automobiles to manufacturing facility high quality and security requirements,” mentioned RTA normal supervisor Jeff Barber.
“As you’ll be able to admire, as the primary US pickup model to remanufacture automobiles right here within the fashionable period, we’re pleased with the half we have now performed in retaining native automobile manufacturing and engineering abilities alive in Australia within the wake of the closure of the Holden, Ford and Toyota factories in 2016 and 2017.”
Manufacturing is scheduled to start on the new Dandenong facility subsequent month (November 2025).
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