The Stellantis group to reassign the Gliwice plant to LUV production
- After the announcement of the Stellantis group concerning the new assignment of the British Ellesmere Port plant which will stop producing the Opel Astra at the end of 2021 and start producing light utility vehicles of the N1-1 segment, as the Citroën Berlingo, Peugeot Partner, Opel Combo and Vauxhall Combo in their battery electric versions, the automotive group has announced the new assignment of the Polish factory in Gliwice which will also cease producing the Opel Astra at the end of the year 2021. The Opel Astra was produced until now in these two plants, while the new Opel Astra presented at the Munich Motor Show will be only produced at the German site in Rüsselsheim, alongside the new DS 4 and the Opel Insignia.
- The Gliwice plant will now be used to produce light utility vehicles of the N1-3 segment, such as the Fiat Ducato, Citroën Jumper, Peugeot Boxer and Opel/Vauxhall Movano. These vehicles were until now assembled in the Italian plant of Val di Sangro, except the Movano which has just been renewed (they were previously produced by Renault at the French site of Batilly). From 2022, the Gliwice plant will produce 100,000 of these vehicles each year.
- The Val di Sangro plant, which has a production capacity of 250,000 vehicles per year, was saturated in recent years, and the arrival of Movano would have amplified this phenomenon. With the announcement to transfer 75,000 of these vehicles to Gliwice each year and to produce 25,000 Movano on this plant (which has a production capacity of 200,000 vehicles per year), the Val di Sangro site will be able to recover a normal rhythm. Also, the Gliwice plant will see its production capacity cut in half, but this decision was preferred to a shutdown of the plant.
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