PSA will produce the future 301 and C-Elysée in Algeria from summer 2020
- The PSA group is building an assembly plant in Algeria, near Oran, near the plant that Renault built a few years ago. This new plant is part of the manufacturer's plan to establish a long-term presence in Africa. Since last summer, PSA has had a plant in Morocco (Kenitra) and a plant in Tunisia (El-Mghira), the former producing Peugeot 208s and the latter pick-ups of Chinese origin.
- The new plant located in northwest Algeria is expected to reach a production capacity of 75,000 vehicles per year, according to the manufacturer. This plant will therefore be the same size as Renault's in the same region.
- From summer 2020, this new plant will manufacture the new generations of Citroën C-Elysee and Peugeot 301 (the current models are manufactured in Vigo, Spain), most of which will be sold in the various North African markets.
- With the Moroccan plant in Kenitra, the PSA group will have an annual production capacity of 275,000 vehicles in North Africa, while Renault produced 472,683 cars in the region last year (402,086 in Morocco and 70,597 in Algeria).
- But PSA is not only setting up in North Africa, since the French manufacturer also has a factory in Kenya (1,000 cars produced in 2019 and 15,000 futures units), and plans to set up in Namibia (5,000 cars per year), Nigeria (10,000 cars per year) and Ethiopia (1,000 cars per year).
- It should be noted that the Algerian market grew by 30.6% in the first half of 2019, to 75,400 units for all brands combined.
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