 Peugeot Citroen has said it plans to reduce production at Ryton |
Peugeot Citroen has issued more details of plans to make 300,000 cars a year at a new factory in Slovakia. The news comes a week after the car firm announced it was seeking to reduce production at its Ryton plant near Coventry.
The company has not specified which vehicles will be built at the factory near Slovakia's capital, Bratislava.
But the cars expected to be made there are Citroen C3 and the Peugeot 206, which is currently manufactured at Ryton.
Strike action
Jean Martin Folz, the company's president, said the decision to build a factory in eastern Europe was based on fast-growing sales in that area in recent years.
The firm is to invest 700m euros in the new plant and production will begin there in 2006.
Peugeot Citroen announced last week it was talking to the unions about a reduction in production at Ryton.
Strike action over pay by workers at the plant came to an end in March.
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