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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedCarmakers reap benefits of supplier park concept; Parts makers also take advantage as car assembly areas get more crowded.(News)
Automotive News Europe, April, 2003
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Byline: Edmund Chew
The march of the supplier park is proving relentless in Europe. Previously reluctant carmakers are setting up parts-making facilities adjacent to - or even inside - their assembly plants.
BMW and PSA/Peugeot-Citroen, for example, have said in the past they were not interested in establishing supplier parks. Both carmakers said they did not want to restrict the commercial freedom of their suppliers.
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But BMW's new plant in Leipzig, Germany, and PSA's new plant in Slovakia will both use supplier parks. The Leipzig plant is due to open in 2005. It will ...
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