Best Practice Visit - Nissan Sunderland

Go behind the scenes at Nissan, Sunderland - one of the UK's largest car manufacturers. In 1986 the first Nissan Bluebird rolled off the production; fast-forward 37 years, and the Site is driving forward the Nissan EV36Zero, a £ 1 billion project to create the world's first EV manufacturing ecosystem.

Over 6,000 employees are based at Nissan, Sunderland, across a 362,000m2 site of world-leading manufacturing excellence. The Site is also home to solar and wind farms, a vehicle test track and facilities like its advanced sports and medical centre.

In 2016, the Site was responsible for 507,000 of the 1.73 million cars that rolled off UK production lines. One in every three new cars built in the UK comes from Sunderland Plant.

Delegates attending the visit will gain exclusive insight into the best-in-class manufacturing practices adopted by Nissan. The visit will be hosted by members of the Nissan team who…