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Michaël HIDRIO
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The presence of the Renault Sandouville major site (top-of-the-range vehicles: Vel Satis, Laguna, Espace) and the proximity to several other large production units (PSA Peugeot-Citroën, Renault Trucks) have turned the local car industry into a competitive and very comprehensive sector.

In addition to these large units, the automotive sector can also rely on an efficient and structured network of sub-contractors and service providers entirely dedicated to the Normandy car industry, which currently represents 15% of national production.

 

 

Le Havre region:
Renault, Faurecia, Plastic Omnium, DSA Trèves, Antolin IGA, Inoplast Sommer Allibert...

Normandy:
PSA Peugeot-Citroën, Renault Trucks, GF Garçonnet, Holophane, Lecapitaine, Autoliv, Aries, Metzeler, ArvinMeritor, Donaldson, Oxford Automotive, Textron, Visteon, Wagon, Electropoli, Honeywell, Key Plastics, Knorr Bremse, Bosch Electronique, Thyssen Krupp, Magneti Marelli, Cooper Tire and Rubber, Federal Mogul, Johnson Control, GDX Automotive, Lear, Timken, Tyco, Recticel, Inergy Automotive Systems, Bodycote, TI Automotive, Klaxon, Hydro Aluminium, Rieter...

 
 
  Proximity to major manufacturers,
  A dense network of sub-contractors,
  A top-of-the-range logistics network,
  Proximity to the head offices of major companies of the Paris region.
 
Le Havre region:
> 32 companies
> 7,120 professionals
Renault Sandouville:
> 6,300 persons
Le Havre port roll-on/roll-off services:
> an average traffic of 500,000 vehicles/year
Normandy :
> 181 companies
> 26,595 professionals
  • car manufacturing:
     > 130 companies
     > 17,619 professionals
  • equipment manufacturing:
     > 51 companies
     > 8,976 professionals
> 30% of national production of vehicles (> 1 million / year)
> Leading Normandy industrial center point (10.6% of regional industry)
 

In Normandy, automobile sub-contracting groups together the major equipment manufacturers into a structured and dynamic network. This concern for performance and collaboration with the main contractors took shape in Le Havre, in 2001, with the creation of a Supplier Industrial Park on the site of Renault Sandouville, linking the major sub-contractors of the national manufacturer and employing more than 500 persons.

 
 

The port of Le Havre provides the Normandy car industry with a high-quality logistics tool to distribute new vehicles in France and all over the world and to supply the production units.

The roll-on/roll-off terminal, available day and night seven days a week, ensures import and export traffic (80%) all over the world. Due to the continuous growth of this traffic (472 000 vehicles in 2003), the port of Le Havre has launched significant works to extend these facilities. More details...

As well as attracting manufacturers, Le Havre’s logistics propositions appeal to major logistics operators, such as Gefco, occupying 32,000m2 of modern warehouses in the Le Havre Port Industrial Zone since 2002, which benefits from the worldwide influence of the leading French container port for its activities of assembly and redistribution of spare parts.

 

Olivier MERESSE - General Manager

"Within the car industry, due to the « just-in-time » production constraints, customers and suppliers are more and more linked to one another. Plastic Omnium settled in Le Havre in 1991, when the Supplier Industrial Center Point of the Renault plant was created. As an equipment manufacturer in charge of production, preparation and production cycles of bumpers for Renault, Plastic Omnium handles more than 750 references for vehicles assembled on site. Even if the setting-up site was not a deliberate choice but met the manufacturer's requirements, all our employees enjoy living in the region, given the outstanding quality of life it provides.”

 
 

The good health of the French automotive industry reinforces the Le Havre and Normandy center point whose level of performance is continuously improving. The heavy investments made over the last years in the sites of Renault Sandouville (plant and Supplier Industrial Park) and Renault Cléon (production of new engines) will ensure the future of the industry in the long-term.

The development of the roll-on/roll-off terminals of the port of Le Havre to absorb a greatly increasing flow shows the significant role played by Le Havre in all aspects of the French car industry.

 
 

Port of Le Havre Authority
www.havre-port.fr

Upper-Normandy Industry Portal
www.industrie-hn.org

Les Industries du Havre
www.industriesduhavre.com
 
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