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24 March 2018 | AutoData LAUNCH » CRONOS of the steel structures promoted a jump in the quality due to the precision that this technology offers in the assembly of the vehicle, something still innovative of for the Argentine factory. Demaria highlights this important investment as one of the most relevant of the cycle: “Robots have raised the factory automation index from 15% to 85%. The efficiency and accuracy of these equipment are requirements that we do not give up in the production of a vehicle. I believe that this investment was very important to Cordoba”. Parallel to the development of the project in Betim, Ketter was ahead of the conversations with the seventy suppliers of more than six hundred parts of Cronos. “This process required a lot of courage from our part to make a new car in Ar- gentina”. Of these seventy companies in Argen- tina that supply the production four are newly installed in the country. “They are global suppliers that work with us in Per- nambuco”. Twenty suppliers, including the four newcomers, are in Cordoba. In total, The production of Cronos attracted four new suppliers to Argentina. 53% of the content of the sedan is produced at the same place