Maubeuge Construction Automobile Explained

Maubeuge Construction Automobile SNC
Type:Subsidiary
Industry:Automotive
Foundation:29 April 1969
Location City:Maubeuge
Location Country:France
Key People:Olivier Silva (Director)[1]
Products:Kangoo II (also badged Mercedes-Benz Citan)[2]
Production:137,175 (2013)
Parent:Renault
Maubeuge plant
Area:83 hectares
Address:Maubeuge Construction Automobile, BP 20050, 59604 Maubeuge, France

Maubeuge Construction Automobile (in French pronounced as /mobœʒ kɔ̃stʁyksjɔ̃ otɔmɔbil/; MCA) is a subsidiary of the French car manufacturer Renault created in 1980 to operate the light commercial vehicle plant located at Maubeuge.[3] The company traces its origins back to a Chausson factory established in 1969.[4]

History

In 1969, the Société des Usines Chausson established operations in Maubeuge.[3] [5] [4] In 1970, Renault and Peugeot entered into the company.[6] (a 52% stake was owned by Chausson, a 24% by Renault and a 24% by Peugeot). An assembly facility was inaugurated on 23 September 1971.[7] The next years, however, Chausson struggled with the relatively low sales for the models produced and the breakup of the Renault-Peugeot partnership.[8] In 1978, Renault purchased all the plant's stake[5] and renamed it Maubeuge Chausson Automobile.[8] In 1980, Renault founded MCA.[3] [7] [4] Since the 1990s it specialised on LCVs. In 2011 an all-electric van was put into production.[3] In 2012, as part of the partnership between Renault and Daimler, Maubeuge started to assemble the Mercedes-Benz Citan, a badge-engineered Kangoo.[9] In June 2021, Renault said it plans to merge MCA operations with the Douai and Ruitz ones into a new wholly owned subsidiary named as Renault ElectriCity, with the aim of creating an electric vehicle manufacturing pole in northern France.[10]

Vehicles manufactured

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Maubeuge Construction Automobile changé de directeur . Maubeuge Construction Automobile changes Director . lavoixdunord.fr . . 6 July 2016. 19 August 2017.
  2. Web site: 2013 Registration Document . Renault . 8 April 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140408171047/http://www.renault.com/en/lists/archivesdocuments/registration-document-2013.pdf . 8 April 2014 . PDF . 14 .
  3. Web site: Maubeuge plant . Renault . 29 August 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140829225849/http://group.renault.com/en/our-company/locations/renault-locations/maubeuge-plant-mca/ . 29 August 2014 . live.
  4. Web site: André Chausson, roi de l'automobile . André Chausson, king of the automobile . lavoixdunord.fr . La Voix du Nord . 17 July 2008 . 29 August 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140829221440/http://www.lavoixdunord.fr/Locales/Maubeuge/actualite/Secteur_Maubeuge/2008/07/17/article_andre-chausson-roi-de-l-automobile.shtml . 29 August 2014 . live.
  5. Book: Grevet, Jean-François . Jean-François . Eck . Michel-Pierre . Chélini . PME et grandes entreprises en Europe du Nord-Ouest, XIXe-XXe siècle: activités, stratégies, performances . Enterprises automobiles et conversion des vieux bassins industriels en Europe du Nord-Ouest: le cas du Nord-Pas-de-Calais (1968−1978) . 2012 . Presses Univ. Septentrion . 81 . 978-2-7574-0367-9.
  6. Book: Dormard, Serge . L'économie du Nord-Pas-de-Calais: histoire et bilan d'un demi-siècle de transformations . 2001 . Presses Univ. Septentrion . 96 . 978-2-8593-9658-9.
  7. Web site: Maubeuge - Feignies : En 2011, MCA célèbre un double anniversaire . Dormigny, Matthias . Maubeuge - Feignies: In 2011, MCA celebrates a double anniversary . lasambre.fr . 10 July 2011 . 29 August 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140829214346/http://www.lasambre.fr/article/10/07/2011/maubeuge---feignies--en-2011--mca-celebre-un-double-anniversaire/2560 . 29 August 2014 . live.
  8. The French automobile industry confronting the social, economic and environmental crisis of the 1970s (1968–1981) . Jean-François . Grevet. 2010 . . https://web.archive.org/web/20140830053516/http://www.gla.ac.uk/media/media_169014_en.pdf . 30 August 2014 . Glasgow . live.
  9. Web site: New Mercedes-Benz Citan Van is a Renault Kangoo in Disguise . Carscoops.com . 16 April 2012 . 16 June 2014.
  10. Web site: Renault Puts Unproductive French Plants to Work on Electric Cars . Bloomberg . 9 June 2021 . Patel . Tara . 11 July 2021.

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