Renault Industrie Belgique
| Renault Industrie Belgique SA Renault Industrie België NV
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| legal form |
Societé Anonyme / Naamloze Vennootschap (public limited company) |
| founding | 1931 |
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Haren - Vilvoorde , Brussels , Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium
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| Number of employees | ~ 500 |
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Automobile trade Automobile assembly (formerly) automotive supplier |
| Website | www.renault.be |
The Renault industrial Belgique SA or Renault industrial Nederland NV , officially with the acronym RIB abbreviated is an assembly plant of Renault -Konzerns which headquartered in Vilvoorde and the Brussels district of Haren has. When it was built in 1931, it was Renault's first plant outside of France . The vehicles assembled here were intended in particular for sales within Scandinavia , the Benelux countries and Central Europe .
Company history
founding
The factory opened in 1925.
At that time only a few thousand units of these models were assembled each year. Only with the cheap model Juvaquatre and the likewise new Primaquatre Sport was the plant able to achieve higher sales. Competitors were in particular Peugeot and Opel . Although the assembly of the Juvaquatre was finished in 1955, the construction of the vehicle was revised and reworked into a station wagon. Subsequently, the model was reissued as Dauphinoise . At the same time, production of the successful Dauphine began. Since then, axle components, exhausts and body parts have been manufactured in the Belgian plant.
1960s and 1970s
In the 1960s, the Dauphinoise was finally replaced by the R4 . In 1962, Renault finally set up a third assembly line. The first model to roll off the production line here was the Rambler-Renault Classic , which was assembled here in all three generations for the European market until 1967. The model was also used for advertising purposes in the series The Passengers on Bus Line U (1964) as well as in the films The Screamers (1966), Trans-Europ-Express (1966) and Greetings from Hong Kong (1975). As a replacement, the Rebel finally came on the market, which, like its predecessor in badge engineering , has been assembled under double brand names as Rambler-Renault . At the same time, the plant increased its production to around 100,000 units per year. A year later, the Dauphine was replaced by the R6 .
In the early 1970s, Renault stopped European assembly of the Rambler-Renault models, using the R12 . With the oil crisis that occurred two years later , Renault had an enormous market advantage with its compact vehicles. Nevertheless, the R12 only remained in the European model range until 1976. The replacement was the R14 .
1980s until today
The 1980s were also characterized by the production of compact class vehicles. It wasn't until 1986 that a mid-range model was added again with the R21 . In the 1990s, the Clio followed , with which the long outdated R4 had been replaced, as well as the compact class model Mégane , with which the R21 was replaced.
When the final assembly of automobiles ended in 1997, around 3,500 employees lost their jobs. This decision sparked strikes and protests among the workforce as well as political disputes. Among other things, the subject of the closure of the Belgian plant in the crime thriller Fermeture de l'usine Renault à Vilvoorde , in German closure of the Renault plant in Vilvoorde from 1999, was taken up by the author Jan Bucquoy . In this fictional factory, protesting factory workers who are affected by the closure have kidnapped the Renault CEO Louis Schweitzer for extortion purposes and will murder him in the course of the film. In real life, Louis Schweitzer was Renault's CEO until 2005. He's still alive today.
The units assembled at the Haren-Vilvoorde plant can be identified in the eleventh position of the letter H in the vehicle identification number . The factory did not have its own world manufacturer code.
In the meantime, Renault has modernized the plant and put it back into operation. At the moment, only vehicle parts are manufactured here that are installed in other plants. Around 500 people are currently employed here.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Renault België in cijfers en data. In: nl.renault.be. Retrieved March 31, 2019 (Dutch).