Of this total, the Sandouville plant built 5,116 Trafic-type vans for General Motors. Meanwhile, at the same time, Renault's plant at Batilly in France, home of the Renault Master "and others", has itself broken production records.
Batilly’s assembly lines have, when combined,
achieved highest-ever annual production for all brands, including over 126,000
vans.
The Renault Master has broken production Batilly’s
record, with 85,208 units built. Renault’s plant specialises in the manufacture
of large vans for Renault and its partners, Nissan, General Motors and Renault
Trucks.
In 2015, the plant produced 126,375 vans and
broke its previous record dating from 2006 (123,202 units).
It also broke the Renault Master production
record dating from 2000 (82,121 units).
The detailed 2015 production figures are:
Renault Master: 85,208 units; General Motors: 21,702 units; Renault Trucks:
12,500 units; and Nissan: 6,965 units.
The plant has made the Master for 35 years and
during this time the plant has seen three generations of the Renault Master. More
than 2.2 million Masters have been produced here since the plant was
inaugurated in 1980.
On average, one Renault Master leaves the
assembly line every two minutes. With over 3,000 employees, it is the biggest
private employer in France’s Meurthe et Moselle department.
Renault says that its entire range of light
commercial vehicles is made in France and benefits from French production
know-how and competitiveness.
Kangoo vans and larger Trafic vans are produced
in the Maubeuge and Sandouville plants respectively. With a daily production
capacity of 640 vehicles, the Batilly plant works with more than 250 suppliers,
over half of which are based in France.
Engines for the Master are produced by Groupe
Renault’s Cléon plant based in Normandy, which specialises in the production of
high-tech powertrains.
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