Top 5 plants of 9 major auto manufacturers in Europe
- The charts relating to the top 5 plants of 9 major carmakers in Europe highlight significant differences in terms of size, geography and utilization of plants.
- The Volkswagen, PSA and Renault -Nissan groups have the largest plants. But while the Volkswagen group manages to use 90 % of the capacity of its five largest factories in 2013, the group Renault-Nissan and PSA will use this year only 80 % and 75% of the capacities of their five largest plants.
- Volkswagen Wolfsburg plant utilizes 100 % of its capacity and Renault -Nissan plants Sunderland (Nissan) , Pitesti (Dacia ) and Bursa (Renault) 100 % of their capacities in 2013 as well.
- In PSA, none of the five main factories utilize 100 % capacity. The Rennes plant that does not appear in this ranking only used 40% of its capacity in 2013.
- Ford Europe, GM Europe and Fiat -Chrysler have fewer large plants and the plants are underutilized: 70% for GM Europe , 60% for Ford Europe , 50% for Fiat -Chrysler regarding their top five factories in 2013.
- BMW and Daimler use 90 % of the capacity of their top five factories, and Hyundai- Kia uses 80 %. Independent Japanese automakers (Toyota , Honda, Suzuki ) produce less than the nine carmakers analysed here.
