PSA Peugeot Citroën has decided to develop a new family of one-litre three-cylinder petrol engines with power ranging from 70 to 100 CV. This engine will bring very significant reductions in CO² consumptions and emissions and enable the group, currently leader on the low CO²-emitting vehicles segment, to maintain and comfort its competitive advantage.

The aim is to offer the market vehicles with CO² emissions below 100g/km with no additional technology. Two extremely competitive manufacturing sites will be set up, one in France, the other in eastern Europe. The first facility, with an annual capacity of 600,000 engines, will be operational as of 2011. It will be located in France on the PSA Peugeot Citroën site at Trémery and enable the creation of over 500 jobs. In 2007, the Trémery plant, located 15 km from Metz, manufactured 1.74 million engines. Since being set up in 1979, this world-class plant with 4,100 employees has produced over 30 million engines.

A second facility will be set up in Eastern Europe by 2012. In order to find the best location for this additional engine-making plant, PSA Peugeot Citroën has begun canvassing several countries in this region. The choice will be made in the middle of this year.

With this new manufacturing facility in Eastern Europe, the group will strengthen its position in this geographic region. This site will offer additional support to its marketing offensive in this part of the world alongside its plants in Slovakia (Trnava), the Czech Republic (Kolin) and Turkey (Bursa).

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