This is Dacia’s highest January-July production volume ever.
The growth driver for the first time in the last eight years was the demand from both the European market, which rose by 8% in the first half, and the Romanian market, where the sales of the carmaker went up by more than 20% in the first half.
“About 91% of the production in the first seven months of 2015 was exported, compared with about 93% in the year-ago period,” APIA officials said.
Cornel Olendraru, the manager of the Dacia Mioveni plant, has recently said this year’s production volume will reach almost 350,000 cars, the maximum capacity of the facility, with another 20,000 partly assembled vehicles to be sent to the plant in Oran, Algeria to final assembly.
On the other hand, production at rival Ford’s Craiova plant fell 16% to 30,500 units in January-July, due to the decline of the small MPV market in Europe.
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)