Automotive sector in Benelux

In recent years, Luxembourg has become a key location for major suppliers to the automotive industry. The Grand Duchy offers ‘just-in-time’ access to the major European car manufacturers and assembly plants.

Car producers in Belgium, France and Germany as well as assembly lines in the Netherlands and in the United Kingdom are supplied from Luxembourg on a same day delivery basis. Thanks to the central location and excellent technologies, numerous car manufacturers based in Europe, such as BMW, Daimler, Fiat, Ford, PSA, Renault-Nissan, Toyota or VW use products ‘made in Luxembourg’. Automation components are also exported to assemblers in the USA and in Asia.

At the end of the century Belgium became one of the largest European auto makers with an annual output up to 1.2 million from assembly plants of foreign brands because its mainly export-oriented auto industry shrunk by half in recent years (to 500 thousand units) due to strong competition with imports from near and far Eastern producers.

Netherlands imports most of vehicles, having small own manufacturing less than 100 thousands per year. Domestic car’s design and mass production lost. Besides DAF trucks and VDL buses, national automakers includes small companies NovoMotive, Spyker Cars, NedCar.

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