Archer and Stellantis share more details of manufacturing partnership on first day of Paris Air Show

Archer and Stel­lan­tis have today (Mon­day) announced fur­ther progress in their strate­gic man­u­fac­tur­ing part­ner­ship on day one of the 2023 Paris Air Show, with con­struc­tion now well under way on Archer’s high-vol­ume, 100-acre man­u­fac­tur­ing facil­i­ty in Cov­ing­ton, Geor­gia.

Ini­tial man­u­fac­tur­ing oper­a­tions will be capa­ble of pro­duc­ing up to 650 air­craft per year with room for expan­sion to sup­port pro­duc­tion of up to 2,300 air­craft per year. Both com­pa­nies have said that man­u­fac­tur­ing air­craft at these vol­umes would make this site the world’s lead­ing air­craft man­u­fac­tur­ing facil­i­ty by vol­ume.

Dur­ing the man­u­fac­tur­ing ramp-up phase, the goal is to lever­age each company’s respec­tive strengths to enable the rapid scal­ing of air­craft pro­duc­tion to meet Archer’s com­mer­cial­iza­tion plans.

Archer’s founder and CEO, Adam Gold­stein, said: “At Archer, our goal is not just to get to com­mer­cial­iza­tion, but to achieve it at scale. High-vol­ume man­u­fac­tur­ing is crit­i­cal to ensur­ing we can meet this goal and join­ing forces with one of the lead­ing mobil­i­ty com­pa­nies in the world is help­ing us real­ize the once-in-a-gen­er­a­tion oppor­tu­ni­ty we have to rede­fine urban trans­porta­tion.

“I couldn’t be proud­er of what we’ve already accom­plished with this part­ner­ship as we con­tin­ue to lead the indus­try in build­ing out man­u­fac­tur­ing capa­bil­i­ties.”

As the two com­pa­nies rapid­ly progress towards bring­ing this facil­i­ty online in mid-2024, there are now expe­ri­enced Stel­lan­tis per­son­nel work­ing full time along­side the Archer team, sup­port­ing oper­a­tional readi­ness with the cur­rent focus being on man­u­fac­tur­ing automa­tion and com­po­nent sourc­ing.

Stel­lan­tis recent­ly increased its strate­gic share­hold­ing through a series of pur­chas­es of Archer stock in the open mar­ket, and its per­son­nel are now embed­ded across almost all areas of Archer’s oper­a­tions, includ­ing man­u­fac­tur­ing, engi­neer­ing, sup­ply chain, qual­i­ty, facil­i­ties and human resources.

Stel­lan­tis CEO Car­los Tavares added: “The Stel­lan­tis and Archer teams are mov­ing full speed ahead in exe­cu­tion mode to ensure we meet our goal of bring­ing scal­able man­u­fac­tur­ing of Archer’s air­craft online in mid-2024.

“We believe this unique part­ner­ship is set­ting the stan­dard for cross-indus­try col­lab­o­ra­tion and con­tin­ues to be a key pil­lar of our strat­e­gy to ensure Stel­lan­tis leads the way the world moves, pro­vid­ing free­dom of mobil­i­ty in all ways. With our trust­ed teams onsite work­ing shoul­der-to-shoul­der with Archer, I have no doubt that we are on the right path.”