Second Renault ‘Refactory’ to Recycle, Renew Used Vehicles
The Seville, Spain, plant’s Re-Trofit division will start operations at the end of 2022, with the capacity to refurbish more than 10,000 vehicles and repair up to 1,000 batteries per year by 2025.
French automaker Renault announces plans for a second “Refactory” to recycle and renew used vehicles.
Renault made the announcement on the first anniversary of the first Refactory at its Flins plant in France. Now its Spanish plant in Seville will be added to the project which aims to:
Re-Trofit: reconditioning of used vehicles;
Re-Energy: repairing and developing applications for batteries in second life such as energy storage;
Re-Cycle: for recycling, resource management and the manufacture of E-Tech gearboxes;
Re-Start: a training and R&D center dedicated to the circular economy.
The Refactory in Seville will be rolled out between 2022 and 2024. The Re-Trofit division will start operations at the end of 2022, with the capacity to refurbish more than 10,000 vehicles and repair up to 1,000 batteries per year by 2025.
This announcement is part of the industrial plan for Renault Group's Spanish plants, including the allocation of five new vehicles and a new family of engines for the Castilla y León plants. The plant in Seville will handle the manufacture of two new models of electrified gearboxes for the Group's hybrid vehicles.
José Vicente de los Mozos, executive vice president-industry at Renault Group, says: "One year after the launch of the Refactory in Flins, this project illustrates the Group's strong ambitions in terms of the quality and sustainability of its products in order to meet the challenges of the ecological transition and the issues of more sustainable consumption. “Thanks to their competitiveness, our Flins and Seville plants are now demonstrating their ability to invent a new profitable industry model for more sustainable mobility.”
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