PSA Kaluga plant has started production of Jumpy and Expert
- As announced in the December 25, 2017 Auto-Analysis , the production of Citroën Jumpy and Peugeot Expert commercial vehicles started in March 2018 at the Russian PSA site in Kaluga. These vehicles are intended exclusively for the Russian market, and possibly for the markets of the Socialist Republics of the former USSR. The planned production volumes will nevertheless be clearly insufficient to really revive the production of the site which has been idling for several years.
- Installed capacities of 125,000 units per year are very underutilized since the production volume of the site did not even reach 16,000 units in 2017 (Citroën C4 and Peugeot 408), against 17,415 in 2016. The site has never reached 50,000 units per year, even including the models of Mitsubishi, which owns half of the site and whose production volume (Outlander, Pajero) currently accounts for almost 90% of the site's activity. Kaluga’s utilization rate does not even reach 15%.
- The start of production of the Citroën Jumpy and Peugeot Expert in Kaluga took place just when PSA announced the transfer of several thousands of these models each year from Valenciennes in France to Luton in England. We are witnessing a scattering of the production of Citroën Jumpy and Peugeot Expert without being certain that the demand will be high enough for three different production sites to be needed. The Valenciennes site has manufactured less than 115,000 units of these models in 2017, while the capacity of this plant is 180,000 per year, and a number of units have been exported to Great Britain ( 13,000 units) and to Russia (1,000 units)., The PSA Group expects an increase in the European market for light commercial vehicles in the coming years to compensate these production transfers.
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