With the unveiling of Aston Martin's first SUV scheduled for the last quarter of 2019, work is progressing apace to complete the new St Athan production facility. The site, which started its life as a series of Ministry of Defense 'Super Hangars', is being completely transformed into a state-of-the-art luxury manufacturing plant; one that will be the British marque's second production facility and ultimately become the company's 'Home of Electrification' when the marque's planned EV models enter production.

Already home to some 100 employees, St Athan is nearing completion with the paint shop fully installed and construction of the production line well underway. Once fully commissioned early in the first quarter of 2019, when production of the next phase of prototype models will commence, the workforce will be boosted to nearer 200.

Over 70 Welsh employees are set to join the St Athan team having spent the last two-and-a-half years at Aston Martin's Gaydon Headquarters learning the Aston Martin way. This core group of experts will train new employees at the St Athan plant. They're sure to be busy with the workforce steadily increasing during the first half of 2019, then increasing rapidly to more than 700 by the first quarter of 2020 as DBX production ramps up.