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Renault boss has “no intention” to close the site

Good news for Maubeuge
                    ? Jean-Dominique Senard, the boss of Renault, said Sunday that he has ” no intention To close the MCA site.

I have no a priori intention to close the Maubeuge factory. I assure you, I never said it and I never even thought about it “, Said Jean-Dominique Senard during the RTL-Le Figaro-LCI Grand Jury.

Since the announcement of a savings plan of more than two billion euros out of three on the part of the car manufacturer, a merger project between the Maubeuge site and that of Douai was discussed. In addition to cutting 15,000 jobs worldwide, the plan therefore plans to transfer production of the Kangoo electric utility vehicles to Douai – around 2,900 employees – some 70 km from Maubeuge, which would inherit a new platform.

The North must become “one of the major centers of the automotive industry in France”

This project sparked outcry at the Maubeuge site (2,100 employees of all statuses) where the employees stopped production on Friday morning. On Saturday, thousands of people marched through the streets of Maubeuge to support the future of the factory and its jobs in the sector.

Jean-Dominique Senard replied on Sunday that the plan announced was still just ” project “And that elected officials, unions and management should” build (…) together “The future of the group. ” Nothing will be done in the north of France, a place that I would like to see in the long term as one of the major centers of the automotive industry in France (…) without this open discussion with everyone “, Insisted Jean-Dominique Senard.

A meeting is to be held Tuesday morning at the Ministry of the Economy, between union representatives, local elected officials, the Minister of Economy Bruno Le Maire and Jean-Dominique Senard.

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