Vilvoorde Renault Factory

The Renault Monaquatre was assembled at Vilvoorde between 1931 and 1933.
Although the saloon/sedan version of the Renault Juvaquatre was phased out in the early 1950s, the estate version, badged as the Renault Dauphinoise, continued in production at Vilvoorde till 1960.
The first postwar design to be assembled at Vilvoorde was the Renault Dauphine.
Ramblers were assembled at Vilvoorde between 1962 and 1971.
Vilvoorde assembled the Renault 6 between 1968 and 1980.

Renault Industrie Belgique S.A. / Renault Industrie België N.V.,[1] officially shortened with the acronym RIB, opened in 1931 as an auto-assembly plant owned and operated by Renault in Vilvoorde on the northern edge of Brussels in Belgium. It was the manufacturer's first plant to be located outside France.

Automobile production at Vilvoorde came to an abrupt end in 1997, with the loss of approximately 3,500 jobs, and in the face of much public opposition from and on behalf of those affected.

  1. ^ Due to the bilingual character of Brussels, French and Dutch language names both appear regularly in sources.