Measures include sanitizing more than 300,000 square-meters of workshop floor, installation of 130 dispensers of hand sanitizer, posting of prevention information on 15 large billboards.
In a press release festooned with assurances, FCA said today that the Sevel plant in Atessa, Italy is opened. The joint venture with PSA Group is one of the leading producers of commercial vehicles for the international market with more than 6,000 employees. At the same time, limited activities also recommenced at the plants in Cassino, Pomigliano, Termoli and Mirafiori in connection with components supply for the Sevel plant.
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Bentley Motors – Chinese Dealers Open With First Flying Spur Deliveries
Not sure there is enough chrome for Chinese tastes.
Bentley Motors has announced that its 40-dealer retail network in China is now fully open, as the country gradually returns to work following the COVID-19 outbreak. Simultaneously, the luxury British marque is starting customer deliveries of the all-new Flying Spur, its luxury Grand Touring sedan, in the country. (Grand Touring? Bentley Mulliner Bacalar to Debut at Geneva, Bentley Bentayga Hybrid Has 24-Mile Electric Range)
Retailers have also implemented a flexible, online-sales approach to minimize impact during this period. Moreover, Bentley retailers have adopted a number of social-distancing methods to prevent spread of the virus while simultaneously enhancing the quality services.
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