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Manufacturing Manufacture For Transport Equipment Manufacture Of Motor Vehicles, Trailers And Semi-Trailers 29.10 - Manufacture of motor vehicles
200 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
8 November 2018
Employment effect (start)
1 January 2019
Foreseen end date
31 December 2023
Description
The Renault group has announced an investment plan of €400 million in the Maubeuge Construction Automobile (MCA) plant at Maubeuge (Nord) over five years and the recruitment of 200 employees. The site will welcome the production of the new version of the Kangoo utility vehicle, as well as a new light utility vehicle from its Nissan partner, the Nissan NV250, on the same platform, from the middle of next year. Since 2012, Renault has been producing Mercedes Citan on the Kangoo model at the Maubeuge plant, which is considered the most competitive in the group in France, and where 300 people have been recruited on permanent contracts since 2015. Recruitment announcement have been recorded in February 2018 (127 job creations) and in 2006 (800 job creations).
Sources
Citation
Eurofound (2018), Maubeuge Construction Automobile (MCA), Business expansion in France, factsheet number 95858, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/95858.
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