Renault Kangoo, the model exported by the French automaker’s subsidiary to Colombia and Mexico.
Renault Argentina announced that in July its factory in Córdoba will work on two full shifts and that, for that purpose, it will be included 300 workers in addition to the 1,500 already there.
The focus will be on increasing production vehicles and utility vehicles What does your plant do?: Sandero, Logan, Stepway and Kangoo.
On the large property that Renault has in the neighborhood of Santa Elizabethoutside the capital of Cordovan, coexisting two factories in one: Renault’s car and utility vehicle assembler, on the one hand, is the one that is now its production will increase.
The other factory is the assembly line of pick upinstalled by a Japanese automaker nissan (Renault’s worldwide partner), where two medium pick-ups came out, the nissan frontier and the Renault Alaskan. This last line is off the ad made by the automaker this Friday.
In fact, this increase is about half shift further, because that line works at a speed of one and a half shifts. But with this new impulse, their production will increase by 50%, until they reach 5,400 units per month.
Last week the head of Renault, Paul Sibillais expected that the increase in production will be used to strengthen the brand’s brand-new online direct sales channel.
“We are working on increasing more volumes at the factory. And if the new sales channel works well, you can stock up on new stuff we announce next week”, Said the Argentine executive, referring to the expansion of production.
Pablo Sibilla, president of Renault Argentina
Three of the models that will increase production, the “Class B” Logan, Sandero and Stepway, has been present on the market for several years and was originally supplied from Brazil. In 2015, with an investment of US $ 100 million, Renault began to do so in Córdoba.
The fourth model kangooalready has a unified regional production in Córdoba and re-launched in 2018. That new version This is the only model currently exporting the French automaker, although it is trying to sell its pick up as well Alaskan in another country.
“We export Kangoo to Mexico and Colombia and at the beginning of next year we will start exporting to Africa and we are very happy with this novelty, “ani Sibilla.” The export to Brazilwhere the previous Kangoo has already been exported, but some parts need to be homologated for new regulations implemented in that country ”.
For this new hire, the company said, in a statement, that it “seeks to increase hiring women, as part of its stable and growing policy towards diversity and inclusion. It is expected that at least half of these entries will be female. ”They must be over 18 years old and have completed high school: it is not necessary that they have previously worked in the industry.
Source: Clarin
