PSA will increase production capacity at Trnava factory
- In view of the success of the new generation of the Citroën C3 (54,000 sales in the first quarter of 2017, compared with 37,000 sales in the first quarter of 2016 for the old generation), PSA group decided to increase the capacity of its Slovak plant at Trnava where this model is produced (alongside the Peugeot 208). At this rate, more than 200,000 Citroën C3 will be sold for the whole of 2017, to which will be added 150,000 Peugeot 208 scheduled this year in this plant, that is to say more than 350,000 vehicles in total. However, the Trnava plant now only has 300,000 vehicles capacity per year.
- The planned transfer of 70,000 Peugeot 208s in 2017 and 2018 from the Trnava to Poissy plant will not be enough to compensate for the additional volumes for the Citroën C3. PSA will therefore have to increase these capacities from 300,000 to 350,000 vehicles a year in 2017 and then to 400,000 vehicles per year in 2019 when the new generation of the Peugeot 208 will appear. The new installed capacity will meet the demand for Citroën C3 and Peugeot 208, ideally 200,000 units a year for each of the two models, but which can be modulated should there be a lesser success of one model compared to the other.
- The Trnava site will thus be the biggest plant in Slovakia in 2020, with that of Bratislava (VW Group).
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