Plastic Omnium: inaugurates a new factory in Austin – 04/16/2024 at 6:16 p.m.


(CercleFinance.com) – OPmobility is inaugurating its new module assembly plant to meet the demand of a major American player in electric mobility.

This factory has already produced 100,000 modules since it started in September. It is expected to quickly become the Group’s largest factory in terms of turnover.

The Austin factory, with an annual assembly capacity of 2.5 million modules (1.5 million front block modules and 1 million cockpit modules), will have more than 400 employees in 2025.

In the future, this factory is expected to expand its activities to the production of exterior body parts such as tailgates.

Laurent Favre, Managing Director of OPmobility declares: ‘It brings the number of OPmobility factories to thirteen, demonstrating the dynamic growth of our order book in the country. This new factory is also the concrete illustration of our customer diversification strategy with electric car pure players. ‘



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