PSA: Which plants will benefit from the closing of Aulnay-Sous-Bois?
- Until 2006, the PSA Group had four plants producing B-segment vehicles:
-Ryton (England), which closed in 2006. This plant used to produce the Peugeot 206.
-Trnava (Slovakia), opened in 2006 to produce the Peugeot 207, the successor to the Peugeot 206,
-Poissy (France), which produces the Peugeot 208,
-Aulnay-Sous-Bois (France), which produced until October 2013 the Citroën C3/DS3.
- Between 2007 and 2013 the volume of the European market dropped by over 25%. PSA vehicles from segment B are primarily sold on this market. This led to significant production overcapacity of PSA plants.
- To curb this trend the French group has decided to rationalise the production of segment B vehicles .
- One would have thought that PSA would have benefited from this rationalisation to transfer the production of the Citroën C3/DS3 from Aulnay-Sous-Bois to the Trnava plant (Slovakia) whose production costs are assumed to be lower.
- This is not the case since the production of Trnava has been practically stagnant since 2009, even with the arrival in 2008 of the Citroen C3 Picasso (MPV from segment B) and the arrival of the Peugeot 208 in 2011.
- It is therefore the Poissy plant that was able to increase its production from 2011 benefiting from the choice made by PSA, while between 2004 and 2011 this plant and the Aulnay-Sous-Bois plant had the same production volume and were following
the same downward trend.
the same downward trend.
