Nissan has announced that yet another one of its manufacturing plants will be closing down. The Nissan Mexico Civac plant is scheduled to cease operations by March 2026, marking the end of the Yokohama-based brand’s first factory outside of Japan.
It’s a sentimental loss for Nissan, but in the meantime, production lines from Civac will be integrated into its neighboring Cooperation Manufacturing Plant Aguascalientes (COMPAS) plant. However, other reports indicate that the COMPAS facility soon shut down as well. Nissan opened the plant with Mercedes-Benz in 2014, and neither of the two carmakers has released statements on the future of the facility.
Since Civac opened in 1966, it has rolled out over six million vehicles, including some of the first Nissan pickups in the North American market. It then went on to assemble the Sentra and the Versa (Almera in the Philippine market) sedans.
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Just two weeks ago, Nissan announced it would be closing its Oppama factory in Yokosuka, Japan, by 2028. Currently, the carmaker has 17 factories worldwide, but under Re:Nissan—its global framework to cut costs and optimize production—it could be closing as many as seven of them over the next few years.
CEO Ivan Espinosa, who is leading the company through Re:Nissan, affirmed that these plant closures are necessary for the survival of the brand: “For over 60 years, Nissan Mexicana has built a strong and trusted relationship with its stakeholders in Mexico, earning global recognition as one of the company’s flagship operations. Today, we have made the difficult but necessary decision that will allow us to become more efficient, more competitive, and more sustainable.”
