Heuliez

Heuliez is a French company which works as an production unit and of design for various manufacturers Automobile S. Its head office is located at Cerizay in the Two-Sevres.

The company is specialized in the production of the short series for niche markets or derived, as the cars half-compartment-convertible or station-wagon, as well as modules and subsets of body.

Heuliez develops concepts and new technologies in body, more particularly in the field of the retractable roofs, opening and the systems of seats.

Since June 2004, Heuliez produces Opel Tigra TwinTop, half-compartment-convertible two places, entirely developed by Heuliez, equipped with a retractable roof.

Heuliez also produces the entirety of the structure of the back bench of the Renault Modus.

Heuliez is especially known for the buses built, by its old subsidiary company Heuliez Bus, mainly on the basis of frame Renault. In 1998, Renault Industrial Véhicules takes the majority of the capital of the company Heuliez Bus, which becomes in 1999, subsidiary of Irisbus, consisted Renault (50% of the capital) and Iveco (50% of the capital) in order to gather their activities of manufacture of bus and bus. In 2002, Iveco repurchases the totality of the capital of Irisbus. Today the buses Heuliez Bus (117.3 € million turnover in 2006 and 435 paid on the site of Rorthais (Mauléon in the Two-Sevres) carry the Irisbus mark. Heuliez Bus produced 13439 buses between 1985 and 2006.

Key elements Heuliez (except Heuliez Drunk)

  • 460.000 vehicles assembled since 1985

  • 1360 employee (except Heuliez Drunk), principal industrial employer of the department of the Two-Sevres
  • 3 production sites: France Cerizay, Spain Mojados, Slovakia Trencin since 2006
  • 1 studio of design (Massy)
  • Subsidiary and representative offices in Germany, China, Japan, South Korea and the United States.

List cars on which Heuliez worked

Buses fitted with body by HeuliezBus

O 305/O 305 G/GX 17/GX 77 H/GX 107/GX 187/GX 44 (Nantes)/GX 113 (Marseilles)/GX 117/GX 117 L/GX 127/GX 127 L/GX 217/GX 217 GNV/GX 317/GX 317 GNV/GX 317 LPG/GX 327/GX 327 GNV/GX 417/GX 417 GNV (Nancy)/GX 427/GX 427 GNV

External bonds

  • + Heuliez Official site of the company
  • Site presenting the history of Heuliez

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