Showing posts with label French. Show all posts
Showing posts with label French. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 4, 2013

French car manufacturer poised for scramble to free Iran

PARIS / DUBAI, Nov 28 Reuters)-Peugeot and Renault are among Western companies send executives to an automotive Conference, which opens in the Iran on Saturday - the go-ahead more open racing business after sanctions trigger.

The French car manufacturer want to continue vehicle sales in the Iran, to reclaim its position in the market before the mass arrival competitors behind any lasting relaxation, the consequences could with a six-month easing of trade restrictions.

Production of domestic automobile industry of Iran, unusually developed for the Middle East reached 1.6 million cars in 2011, the year crippling sanctions were introduced. About half of this expenditure accounted for leading manufacturer Iran Khodro.

Have a handful of foreign production partners - including the South Korean KIA, Suzuki Motor Corp. and the two French manufacturers - manufacturer SAIPA Khodro and no. 2 and exported some of its vehicles.

The Conference in Tehran planned before last weekend Iran talks breakthrough, nuclear weapons consists of representatives of the German, Korean and Japanese manufacturers on their payroll.

Volkswagen, Suzuki, Kia and Hyundai partner denied all Iranian media reports that she wanted to visit, but Renault and PSA Peugeot Citroen confirms that they were sending representatives.

In return for companies by Tehran to suspend key parts of its nuclear program agreed the so-called P5 + 1 powers on November 24, a six month suspension of the trade sanctions on selected goods including auto parts.

The easing by starting in early January, is good news for the French, the semi of built cars in the Iran as a component for installation by local partners of Iran Khodro and SAIPA "kits" until very recently published.

Meanwhile, U.S. automakers remain Malays from the Iran national regulations, including a trade embargo, which provides immediate relief is not subject to.

POSITIONING

In the case of a continuing diplomatic thaw Iran has potential, a profitable, fast growing car soon more than 2 million vehicles market annually, analysts say.

"There is enormous and immediate interest in the Iran," said Thierry Coville, an Iran specialist at IRIS, a French international relations think tank.

Sanctions relief on cars brings tangible benefits to ordinary Iranians that in six months to win domestic support for more concessions for a final nuclear deal can help President Hassan Rouhani, Coville said.

"It will be pretty fast in a sector, which is a great source of Iranian jobs-, so this is more than just symbolic impact is."

More than 100,000 auto workers were fired when sanctions of Iran's largest manufacturing industry, with plants, which came now more than half capacity, according to official data.

In combination with the increasing average age of the vehicles on the streets of Iran, this tempting tier replacement demand, released could spell, if full market opening were followed by the recalcitrant inflation and a stronger Organization.

Peugeot reached a market share of 29 percent to the top 458,000 sales 2011 Renault claims 5.9 per cent of the national registrations. The former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad drove a Peugeot 504.

But the substantial tightening of US led sanctions against the oil industry and financial transactions, production to 292,000 cars in the first half of this year fell Persian, which began in March.

Western automakers seem to have for months before an expected reopening positioning was have.

"We've been in our hands,", said a source close to Renault, adding that some Iranian production was running from stocks of components, the June US Executive order parts shipments before you stop this time.

The French carmaker since talks on a resumption of deliveries, weeks, the source said.

Peugeot situation is complex, because shipments halted at have more - since February 2012 - and one of the Paris-based carmaker pursued strategic alliance with General Motors 7 percent shareholder.

Peugeot hopes that an easing of the sanctions the 150 million euro ($204 million), which they erased by profit, finances should be restored, what Chief Jean-Baptiste de Chatillon analysts said this week.

"We need would several weeks, to start these operations again," said a company spokesman. "But we are not there yet."

Monday, September 30, 2013

French car manufacturers back German offer to delay EU limits carbon sources

French car manufacturers back German offer to delay EU limits carbon sources
Brussels / PARIS, Sept 27 Reuters)-Germany has French car manufacturer support for a last-ditch effort, implementation of the EU carbon dioxide limits up to four years, government officials and diplomats, said on Friday a delay.

Chancellor Angela Merkel's Government wants to design vehicle emissions dilute, which agreed legislation in June, by introducing the phase in period, according to a proposal by German diplomats circulated and seen by Reuters.

Renault and PSA Peugeot Citroen series-based industrial partners, Daimler, BMW and General Motors Opel Division broke with Paris on the side of Germany, officials said.

"We know this common position of the industry was last week," said an official of the French Ministry. Germany is expected to use to put the new requirements, the officials added.

Renault and Peugeot, which triggered no previous objection to the new CO2 limits had proposed for the year 2020, declined both to express whether it supports Germany's bid to loosen the rules.

Friday, September 13, 2013

Hollande is aimed at robots, driverless cars to the revival of the French industry

PARIS, 12 September Reuters) - François hollande on Thursday to the French industry by promoting new technologies to the creation of jobs with the revival created a 10-year timetable, but offered little public money from stretched state coffers.

Socialist President, whose 2014 vowed State budget that next month to focus expenditure restraint, to turn, as he called it, a "lost decade" of conservative rule in which domestic industries fled roughly 700,000 jobs back.

But instructs the system to private investment and the Government Act as a coordinator to bolster growth in 34 areas of driverless cars on electric machines and a new generation of high-speed trains.

"France is a nation of inventors, engineers and producers," said hollande, citing France's role in past centuries and decades in the development of technologies from the steam engine to the hot-air balloons and rechargeable batteries.

"We have to remain duty," he added, however, that the plan no return to a State-directed industrial policy "has turned statist" was the 1960s and 1970s years with so-called.

France new public investment bank on the one hand to provide credit for innovation – no amount has been specified - but representatives declared that they invested with 10 euros from private investors increases accordingly hoped every euro of public funds.

State-appointed "industrial officers" will collaborate with companies and French projects the past successor to develop, as the supersonic Concorde or high-speed TGV urge train - both fruits of the funded research projects.

Stuck with about 10 percent unemployment and the Government forced this week its 2014 lower growth forecast hollande is struggling to raise his poll numbers about 30 percent. He hopes that such purposeful display optimism helps raise hopes for the future among the French.

While officials say 475,000 jobs created or, if your roadmap can be followed by more than 10 years, current data the Statistics Office INSEE remains but grim, with 49.600 industrial jobs lost in the year to August, after.

DRIVERLESS CARS, ELECTRICAL MACHINES

Presented the most new designs hollande on the trade fair car parts Valeo or air built by industrial giants such as car manufacturer Renault,- and vast EADS Group.

Flanked by industry Minister Arnaud Montebourg, showed robot technology, models for an electrical machine, hollande built by EADS, driverless car by Renault-Nissan and an ultra-efficient vehicle Peugeot laboratories, developed in that retail would tested with 15,000 euros ($20,000).

Currently both Peugeot and Renault production in France because of high labour costs continue to struggle and adapt employment laws, to make difficult personnel strength.

Montebourg it lacked no ideas for the promotion of industry, production costs in France for example, create an online tool to help companies that have relocated abroad to recalculate.

But clear successes are deceptive, despite his statement after 10 months of work, that his mediation with vulnerable companies saved some 60,000 threatened industrial jobs.

More jobs to come still France as home. Figures from the March showed that businesses 44, production, since 2009 was returned, had outsourced activities 267, after France according to the Observatoire de l' Investissement. ($1 = 0,7518 Euro)