PSA's 'showplace for outsourcing'.(Cover Story)

Automotive News Europe,  January, 2003  by Saint-Seine, Sylviane de

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Byline: Sylviane de Saint-Seine Automotive News Europe

The big, new plant that PSA/Peugeot-Citroen plans in western Slovakia should benefit big Tier 1 systems suppliers most of all.

Parts makers serving Volkswagen's Bratislava plant just 50km away and the growing Austrian supply base could also be winners.

The 300,000-unit factory in Trnava seems sure to accelerate the shift of suppliers into the region.

Production of small cars - likely to be the Citroen C3 and future Peugeot 107 successors - is due to start in 2006. PSA's capacity will rise to 4 million vehicles a ...

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