The Production Sites; The Wolfsburg Production Site; The Zwickau Production Site - Volkswagen Golf 2014 Service Training

Introduction

The production sites

The Golf 2013 will be produced in the Volkswagen factory in Wolfsburg, as well as in the Volkswagen factory in
Zwickau.

The Wolfsburg production site

The production plant in Wolfsburg, which was built in
1938/1939, is now headquarters of the Volkswagen
Group and the largest continuous automobile factory
in the world.
The factory grounds, which are located next to the
Mittelland Canal, encompass an area covering more
than six square kilometres.

The Zwickau production site

The Volkswagen plant in Zwickau is an automobile
factory located in Saxony, founded in 1990 in what is
now the Mosel district of Zwickau, and which forms
Volkswagen-Sachsen GmbH, with headquarters in
Zwickau, together with the engine factory in
Chemnitz. The factory grounds cover an area
approximately 1.8 square kilometres in size. The Golf
and Passat models as well as bodies for Bentley and
Phaeton are produced at the production plant.
A combined number of around 8,100 employees
work in Zwickau and Chemnitz.
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Over 51,000 staff are currently employed there. They
are not only involved in the production of the Golf,
but also the Volkswagen models Golf Plus, Touran
and Tiguan. In 2011, a total of 805,000 vehicles left
this factory's production halls. Altogether, around 40
million vehicles have been produced at the
Wolfsburg plant to date.
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