PSA Peugeot Citroen to expand its Trnava plant in Slovakia

PSA Peugeot Citroen has today advised the Slovak authorities that the Trnava plant has been selected as the future site for a new manufacturing unit with a potential production capacity of 150,000 vehicles per year.

The additional production capacity will be dedicated to an entirely new vehicle to be marketed alongside existing models. The new car, despite its completely different design concept, will be built on the same platform as the plant's other vehicles, and will be added to the PSA Peugeot Citroen product offer in 2010.

The project will require an investment of approximately €350 million in Slovakia and create some 1,800 jobs.

The new investment will extend PSA Peugeot Citroen's Trnava plant, whose foundation was laid in June 2003. In the start-up phase, the facility will, in 2006, make platform 1 vehicles (small cars), with an annual capacity of 300,000 units on three shifts and a workforce of around 3,500 people.