INSEE published this Tuesday, May 21, a study on the evolution of the automobile industry in Burgundy-Franche-Comté between 2018 and 2022. Jobs have declined, particularly in the automobile manufacturing sector.
The number of employees employed in Burgundy-Franche-Comté by the automobile industry has decreased significantly in five years. It’s a INSEE study, published this Tuesday, May 21, which reveals: at the end of 2020, 42,340 employees worked for the automotive industry in the region. According to the first data available to the institute, between 2018 and 2022, this figure fell by 10%. In automobile manufacturing, a component of the sector, the development is even harsher: the number of employees employed in the region has decreased by 20%, where there were 10,740.
The study highlights that the closure of important sites, such as MBF Aluminum in Saint-Claude in 2021 and Benteler in Migennes.
The INSEE study highlights the importance of the automotive sector in the economy of Burgundy-Franche-Comté: it represents more than one job in the industrial sector in four, and a little less than one employee in twenty (4.2%) of the region.
More than half of the 42,340 employees employed in the sector at the end of 2020 were located in the north-east of the region, in Haute-Saône, in the Territoire de Belfort and Doubs, particularly around Stellantis sites and their commercial partners.
Half of the ten largest industrial companies in the region belong to the automotive sector: these are mainly the Stellantis sites in Vesoul and Sochaux, Fiat Powertrain Technologies in Bourbon-Lancy and Michelin in Blanzy.
INSEE specialists believe that this change in jobs is notably due to the economic context of the automobile sector: between 2018 and 2022, registrations of new vehicles were halved.
But the institute also highlights the effects of the rise of electric cars in the sector: “electric vehicles require almost four times fewer steel parts, but a higher proportion of electronic components” reports the file. The manufacturing of “intermediate goods”, including foundries, represented 173 establishments and 11,710 employees in 2020.
While Burgundy-Franche-Comté was the third region where the greatest number of employees were employed in the automotive sector, today it is Hauts-de-France which has taken this place, “notably due to the development of Toyota, initiator of hybrid vehicles” comments on the file.
While the European Union hopes to ban the sale of new thermal vehicles by 2035, the study highlights that more than one in three employees in the automobile industry in the region are over 50 years old and would be retired by ‘here there. The sector will therefore face a challenge in terms of recruitment: massively renewing its workforce, in a sector already in tension due to technological renewal and the specific skills it requires.
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