Allens advises Ford on development centre to drive innovation

Allens has advised Ford on a series of transactions which will see the company's facilities reconfigured to position Ford as the automaker with the most comprehensive capability to design and engineer vehicles in Australia.

The centrepiece of Ford's commitment is the new Asia Pacific Product Development Centre, which will feature state-of-the-art virtual design and engineering capability.

These transactions will also see an increase to milling capacity and the capacity of the clay modelling workshop at Ford's Asia Pacific Design Studio.

'It's been a pleasure supporting Ford's significant investment in the backbone infrastructure to support Australian research and development,' said David Donnelly, lead partner on each of the transactions.

'As part of this program, we've run three competitive processes for Ford over the past 12 months. Those processes have all concluded over the past few weeks and, together, will re-shape Ford's capital assets.

'These assets will facilitate Ford's investment in the next generation of Australian engineers and the future of the Australian automotive industry,' he said.

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