Four-millionth Renault car from Revoz
Slovenian assembly plant Revoz located in Novo Mesto celebrated the production of the four millionth Renault car it has assembled in its plant. It’s about silver Renault Clio with diesel engine that was manufactured for the French market.
Today Revoz is one hundred percent owned by French Renault, and the plant in Novo Mesto has been writing new chapters of development and progress in automotive industry alongside with Renault for 46 years now. It took twenty years for the plant in Novo Mesto to produce the first million of vehicles, the last million of vehicles was produced in the last seven years, and they plan to reach a number of five million vehicles in the next three and a half to four years. “In Revoz, we have produced this four millionth car in the period when the plant returns to the old routes of Renault Group’s most efficient subsidiaries. With the new development cycle, we are planning to introduce state-of-the-art technologies in the areas of digitalization, automation and electrical and autonomous mobility,” said Kaan Ozkan, President of the Management Board of Revoz on this occasion.
Revoz brings together various suppliers among which AD Plastik is very important. Particularly significant was the collaboration on the Edison project, thanks to which Revoz was highlighted as a key part of the Alliance Renault-Nissan and German Daimler partnerships in 2014. Twingo III and Smart ForFour are produced exclusively in Novo Mesto and they were joined by the electric Smart ForFour, with which Revoz has entered into a new era of electrical mobility development. Since mid-2017, a part of program of fourth-generation Clio model has been produced in Revoz plant.
According to Marinko Došen, President of the Management Board of AD Plastik, last year Revoz’s share in the total revenue of AD Plastik was 20 percent. “We still want to build our cooperation primarily on trust and quality, and in such a manner develop and improve our partnership. The cooperation between Revoz and AD Plastik has undergone various phases. We used to deliver door panels and parts of instrument panel for Renault 4 and Renault 5 models, and today Twingo, which is produced in this plant, has 212 parts manufactured by AD Plastik. A major breakthrough in our collaboration was the Edison project, namely the production of Twingo and Smart, which was one of the reasons for the construction of a brand new and robotized painting line in Zagreb. AD Plastik also participates in the development of the products and tools together with Renault, and we are facing the production of components within the new Clio BJA project. I’m sure this is just one of our many future successful projects. In 2017, over nine million parts produced in our plants were delivered to Revoz,” Marinko Došen pointed out.
In 2017 Revoz revenue amounted to almost EUR 1.6 billion and profit amounted to nearly EUR 35 million and EUR 40.2 million has been invested. It is the largest exporter in Slovenia and the third largest company in that country. Revoz has produced 189,687 vehicles in 2017, and in record 2009 it produced 212,680 vehicles. That record has not been surpassed to this day, but we would not be surprised if the record was to be exceeded in the foreseeable future.
