BMW’s Hams Hall site hits five million milestone

Employees at BMW Group’s Hams Hall engine manufacturing plant near Birmingham are celebrating the production of their five millionth engine.

The plant has a successful history, of more than 18 years, assembling three and four-cylinder petrol engines that are at the heart of a number of BMW and MINI models.

Contributing to the company’s electrified strategy, Hams Hall-built engines are supplied for a growing number of plug-in hybrid vehicles, including the BMW i8 Coupe and BMW i8 Roadster.

“We are delighted to be celebrating our five millionth engine,” says plant director, Bernd Gress. “Our dedicated team works hard to ensure every one of those five million engines has been built to the highest standards of quality and dispatched promptly to one of our vehicle plants, so customers get their cars on time.”

Key engine components – cylinder blocks, cylinder heads and crankshafts – are also machined at the plant for Hams Hall-built engines, as well as being supplied to other BMW Group engine manufacturing plants.

Annual engine production was over 375,000 in 2018, representing 13% of UK engine manufacturing and around 1.5 million components are machined each year.