Toyota dethrones Stellantis. Last year, the Japanese automaker’s factory based in Onnaing, near Valenciennes, became France’s leading automaker with 255,936 vehicles produced, or 50,000 more than in 2021, according to an S&P Global Mobility note broadcast by the echoes.
Toyota’s only site in France succeeds the Stellantis plant in Sochaux, which produced fewer than 200,000 cars in 2022, after 265,000 in 2021 and more than 500,000 in 2019. In question, the work was aimed at concentrating vehicle assembly on a single line, thus reducing the site’s production capacity to 400,000 vehicles per year.
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For its part, the Toyota plant in Valenciennes is driven by the success of the Toyota Yaris, produced on site since 2001, and the Yaris Cross SUV assembled on the same production line since 2021. The plant is 98% automated, too integrates the molding of plastic parts on site. A world first that greatly simplifies logistics and limits costs.
This year, Toyota intends to continue its momentum with 280,000 vehicles produced in Valenciennes. Faced with a full order book, Toyota Motor Manufacturing France (TMMF) announced in September a sweeping plan to hire 500 permanent employees by the end of 2024 to increase the number of permanent on-site employees to more than 4,000 offsite. of a total staff of almost 5,000 employees.
Source: BFM TV
