Employees of the Stellantis foundry in Mulhouse can see far. Their unit will manufacture aluminum parts for electric motors, the automaker announced on Thursday. The site has just been awarded the manufacture of die-cast aluminum casings (envelopes) for an upcoming family of small vehicles that Stellantis will launch from 2026, the group said in a statement, after announcing it to the unions.
This allocation, which represents 50% of the capacity of the Mulhouse foundry (Haut-Rhin), will have to take over from the manufacture of heat engine casings, which is expected to decline in the coming years. Stellantis is aiming for 100% electric sales in Europe by 2030 on its passenger vehicles.
“The Mulhouse foundry is confirmed as a strategic tool for the production of electric vehicles”, underlined Stéphane Dubray, director of the Mechanical Forge and Foundry Pole in Mulhouse. This announcement assures the foundry “an electric future”, and “strengthens it for the next allocations of motor casings, in order to saturate our facilities”, he underlined.
Near the foundry, the mechanical site, which manufactures ground connection parts, has also been allocated a production line for battery packs.
Soon the e-408
On the assembly plant side, the Mulhouse site today produces the compact Peugeot 308 in internal combustion, hybrid and electric, the 508 internal combustion and hybrid, the DS7 SUV, and will soon launch the industrialization of the e-408 electric sedan.
This allocation makes it possible to consolidate a little more than 500 permanent jobs on the Mulhouse site, between the 350 of the foundry itself and the 170 of the tooling workshop which manufactures the molds for the foundry, specified the union CFE -CGC of the site.
With the forge workshop, the foundry and the tooling form the “metallurgical pole”, with more than 1,000 jobs in the Mulhouse factory out of its total workforce of 4,500 permanent and 1,500 temporary workers.
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