The Renault Flins plant will produce 82,000 Nissan Micra per year from 2017
- Renault has chosen the French Flins plant to produce the future Nissan Micra expected in autumn 2016. The current generation dates of 2010 and is built in India in Chennai. The previous generation was from 2002 and was built in Sunderland (Great Britain).
- Renault plans to produce 82,000 units per year from 2017, which represents a little more than the average annual sales in Europe of the current model and of the previous model in the past six years (2007-2012).
- This announcement follows the recent proposal of the management of Renault to to transfer a Nissan model to a Renault factory in France. We know that the production volume of the Renault factory in France has decreased in the last decade. Competitiveness Agreements recently signed by employees of Renault in France could explain this formalisation.
- The Nissan Micra will make better use of the Flins assembly lines, whose rate of use has been below 50% since 2011. The future Nissan Micra produced in France could share its platform with the Renault Clio and the Renault Zoe, also produced at Flins.
- This plant would be the group's first multimodelassembely line regrouping the production of vehicles from different brands (Renault and Nissan), but from the same segment (European segment B) and based on the same platform. The group's production would hence be optimised.
- Can such a policy be expanded to other vehicles, platforms and segments of the group? An analysis of the Renault-Nissan group, published shortly, will provide some answers.
Data source: File #101 - Worldwide production detailed by models
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