PSA Kenitra plant will start operations
- The new plant that the PSA Group has built in Kenitra (Morocco), between Rabat and Tangier, is scheduled to start operating in July 2019. This plant, with an initial production capacity of 100,000 vehicles per year, will supply the Moroccan market, but also the entire African and Middle East markets.
- In a second phase, the production capacity of this plant will be doubled (200,000 vehicles per year) and Europe will then be part of its export zone. This second phase should take place at the very beginning of the 2020s.
- The models, planned for the first phase, will be the new generations of the Peugeot 301 and Citroën C-Elysée, which should be unveiled in a few weeks. The current generations of these entry-level models have been manufactured at the Vigo site in Spain since 2012. They will be stopped next summer. The Kenitra plant is expected to produce between 15,000 and 20,000 units in 2019 and between 90,000 and 100,000 units in 2020 and subsequent years.
- The models which will be added for the second phase, will be based on the brand new CMP platform shared by the PSA group and the Chinese Dongfeng group, such as the new Peugeot 208 unveiled at the last Geneva Motor Show.
- At that time, the Peugeot 208 will no longer be produced in France, but almost exclusively in Slovakia and therefore also in Morocco. The Kenitra plant could produce between 50,000 and 100,000 units per year, starting in 2021, some of which will be exported to Europe. It should be noted that the engines equipping these models will be produced on site.
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