The Dacia Sandero will help the Tangier plant to fully use its production capacity
- The Renault plant in Tangier has produced nearly 150 000 vehicles (MPV Lodgy and Dokker vans) since it opened in early 2012 and over 90% of its production volume was destined for exports (mainly to continental Europe).
- In 2013, 100 000 vehicles (52 000 Dacia Dokker and 44 000 Dacia Lodgy) came out of the assembly lines although the plant has a production capacity of 170 000 vehicles per year. The utilization rate of the plant is at 60%, hence the need to assign an additional model.
- This is the reason the Dacia Sandero was moved there last autumn. This model is already produced in the Pitesti plant in Romania, but the Romanian plant is reaching its saturation threshold (425 000 models produced in 2013 - including 185 000 Sandero - for an maximum production capacity of 400 000 vehicles per year).
- As and when the production pace of the Sandero in Tangier increases (70 000 units per year maximum), Pitesti will return to a level closer to 400 000 vehicles per year, assuming the success of the model stays the same or even grows.
- Currently, the main destination market for the vehicles of the Tangier plant is France (19 000 vehicles in 2013), followed by Turkey (14 000) and Germany (10 000). As of April 2014, the plant will also export to Latin America, where the Lodgy and Dokker are not yet manufactured.
