RusAutoNews.- As announced by KIA Russia & CIS, Kaliningrad Avtotor plant has launched the mass production of the upgraded Cerato in full-cycle CKD mode: welding, painting and assembly.
KIA Cerato has one of the most high-tech features amongst the C-segment sedans. The upgraded model has been available in the Russian market since September 2021.
The production of KIA Cerato started at the Avtotor enterprise in 2012 and the 4th generation of the model has been rolling off the conveyor belt of the factory since 2018. More than 100,000 Cerato automobiles have been manufactured at Avtotor since 2012.
Following the announcement, a complicated process of organisation and modernisation works on the equipment has been conducted by the specialists in the plant, within the framework of preparations for the serial production of the models. In particular, the modernisation process made it possible to achieve an increase in the quality and stability of the anti-corrosion protection of the body, higher precision of operations and more stable paintwork qualities.
Seltos and Soul crossovers are the other models manufactured at Avtotor plant with the CKD method, alongside Cerato.
