TheStellantis Mulhouse Plant is a major car plant in France owned byStellantis throughStellantis France. It has produced cars since 1972, notching up its first ten million in June 2008.[1] Production processes includepanel and component forming,welding, body painting and final assembly.
The plant is located on a large site atSausheim on theÎle Napoléon, on the eastern edge of theMulhouse conurbation. This places it approximately 65 km / 40 miles to the east of the company’sprincipal plant atSochaux, the two locations having been linked by theA36 autoroute since the late 1970s.
Peugeot started manufacturinggear-boxes (transmissions) at their Mulhouse factory in 1962. The 1960s were a period of rapid expansion for Peugeot, with the market-place success of, in particular, their204 enabling them to overtakeSimca andCitroën in the domestic sales charts, which moved the manufacturer from fourth position to second in the French market. Peugeot were sufficiently profitable in this period to pursue a strategy that involved broadening their range downmarket, to include for the first time a model in the “Supermini” class. This car, launched towards the end of 1972, was thePeugeot 104, advertised at the time as Europe’s smallest four door saloon, and the first complete car to be assembled at the company’s Mulhouse plant. Subsequent output has included the205,106,206 and 206 CC as well as the307. The plant’s top sellers to date have been thePeugeot 205 and thePeugeot 106 with 2.2 million of each produced at Mulhouse.[2]
Since 2004, Mulhouse output has also includedCitroën badged vehicles starting with theCitroën C4 and, more recently, theDS4. Production of thePeugeot 308 was initially shared with the nearbySochaux plant. 90,000 of the cars have been produced at Mulhouse: but Since April 2012 Sochaux has become the sole production facility for the 308 in France.[3]
The most recent Peugeot model produced at Mulhouse is the208 of which production in France is shared withthe Poissy plant. The 208 has been in production at Mulhouse since June 2012.[3]
Peugeot were able to choose a relatively spacious site for their Mulhouse plant, which is the only car plant in France to incorporate within its fences a largeforge, originally transferred from the company’s Sochaux location in 1963.[2] The forge supplies other plants inStellantis as well as third party customers includingFord,Volvo,Renault andBMW.[4]
In 2005 output reached 400,000 vehicles, but in 2006 this was reduced to 341,000, and in 2007 to 294,000. In 2010 output recovered to 321,000.[5]
In 2007 Peugeot employed 10,400 people.[6] at Mulhouse.The plant attained unwelcome media notoriety in 2006 and 2007 when several employee suicides led to questioning in the newspaperl'Humanité of the levels of pressure placed on employees to achieve ever more stretched objectives.[citation needed] In 2011 the reported headcount at the Mulhouse plant was down to 8,500.[5]
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