Mercedes will build a second assembly plant in Hungary
- The Daimler Group has announced that it will double its production capacity at its Hungarian Kecskemet site by building a second assembly plant beside the first one.
- Kecskemet's first plant started operating at the end of 2012, soon after the launch of the third-generation Mercedes-Benz A Class and the second-generation B. Its capacity was set at 200,000 vehicles a year.
-The second plant, which should start its activity at the end of 2019, will have an identical capacity of 200,000 vehicles per year. The Kecskemet site should therefore produce up to 400,000 vehicles per year upon completion of the second plant.
- The Kecs kemet site should continue to produce B Class and CLA, as today, as well as new versions of the A-Class. It will also produce the future GLB which will be an SUV based on the future B-Class. It will also be used to manufacture EQ electric versions based on Class A, Class B, CLA and GLB, since Mercedes has announced that there will be no factory dedicated to the manufacture of electric cars, but that all the plants in the group would contribute to the manufacture of this type of car.
- In 2018, the Kecskemet plant will produce 175,000 cars (compared to 185,000 units in 2017), but the arrival of the new A, Class B Class, CLA, GLB (on MFA2 platform) should double this volume in a few years time.
Contact us: info@inovev.com