Plastic Omnium says new plants starting production will allow it it cope with expected global demand in the next five years.
The supplier – which recently insisted none of its depollution parts were involved with the current furore surrounding Volkswagen and its emissions testing – is expanding in North America but also Asia as its reach extends worldwide.
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“In North America we will add four plants and Europe, two plants,” said Plastic Omnium owner, Laurent Burelle. “In a sign of the new tempo, two plants in Asia.
“That means our footprint of plans [will be] 130 – we have enough capacity to serve the market for the next five years. We are real industrial people and we believe in new plants and technology.
“In the last 12 years we have invested EUR2bn [US$2.3bn] and in the next six years, EUR2bn again. That means we are not only confident in the future, but our booked-in business allows me to [say] we will invest more.”
As the Volkswagen scandal broke last month, Plastic Omnium, which is the partner for 13 global automakers concerning anti-pollution systems for SCR (selective catalytic reduction) diesel engines, issued a robust statement from Paris insisting none of its components was involved.
"Plastic Omnium is partnering with 13 worldwide car manufacturers for equipping diesel vehicles with depollution systems called SCR," said a statement from the French supplier. "Those systems are managed and monitored by the engine control unit (ECU) which is under the full responsibility of the car manufacturer.
"Plastic Omnium delivers, for this system, the urea tank and the dosing pump which sprays the urea quantity requested and validated by the car manufacturer in order to comply with environmental regulations in each country.
"Plastic Omnium does not deliver any depollution system on the Volkswagen Group vehicles concerned by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) report on 18 September, 2015."
