Nissan to close seven assembly plants worldwide
- The Japanese carmaker Nissan, which is facing enormous economic and financial problems (it announced losses of four billion euros for the last financial year ending March 2025), will close 7 assembly plants out of the 17 it currently has around the world.
- These 17 assembly plants (+4 plants belonging to Renault), which enabled it to produce more than three million vehicles (passenger cars and light utility vehicles) in 2024, are spread across the planet, but 12 assembly plants spread across five countries represent 90% of Nissan's global production: Japan (801,365 vehicles produced in 4 plants in 2024), China (598,527 vehicles produced in 3 plants in 2024), Mexico (542,414 vehicles produced in 2 plants in 2024), the United States (529,373 vehicles produced in 2 plants in 2024) and Europe (282,124 vehicles produced in 1 plant in 2024).
- Nissan has not yet announced which seven factories will be closed, but we can already see that:
• 70% of the factories (12 out of 17) produce 90% of Nissan's global production.
• 30% of factories (5 out of 17) produce only 10% of Nissan's global production.
• The remaining 7% of Nissan's global production is carried out in four Renault factories.
- The most logical solution would be to close the least productive factories, namely the five factories that account for only 3% of Nissan's global production, and to close two other factories in markets where Nissan has lost a lot of influence, such as China and Japan.
- In its Auto-Analysis of December 3, 2024, Inovevanalyzed that the 20% reduction in production capacity (resulting in the elimination of 9,000 jobs) announced by Nissan at the time would not be sufficient, given the carmaker's situation, and that it was more realistic to reduce it by 40%. Nissan's new announcement to close 7 factories and eliminate 20,000 jobs is consistent with this.