Oreca Building For The Future

Construction of a new factory and engineering facility has begun at Signes, adjacent to Circuit Paul Ricard, for the ORECA Group.

Construction began in January 2022 with delivery of the building scheduled for mid-2023.

The new 8,000 m² building was designed to enhance current and future ORECA Technology projects bringing current state-of-the-art efficiency of production flows, space efficiency and equipment.

In addition to car production and assembly activities, this building will also house all of ORECA’s engineering and R&D functions plus the Design Office.

The new Techno Center will incorporate a showroom space for the first time for the group and will also incorporate meeting spaces for internal and external events.

Hugues de Chaunac: “Through its nearly 50-year history, ORECA has always had one priority objective: performance! This is more than ever the case for the cars we build! For more than 15 years, we have acquired expertise and experience in this profession which allow us today to be a world leader in the construction of prototypes in Endurance and to work with a myth of motorsport in GT: Ferrari.

“The time had come to equip ourselves with industrial means to the highest quality standards to move forward and completely project ourselves into new challenges. The Techno Center will allow us to understand the future and changes in motorsport by being perfectly sized. Finally, it is a building that is close to my heart, because beyond the Technological dimension, it will be a place open to the outside where the values ​​of the Group, its positioning and the dynamics that we put in place in the image will flow. CSR for example.”

Rémi Taffin, Technical Director: “This new racing car production plant is a strong indicator of the acceleration in the growth of our business. It is a tool that on the one hand will allow us to make further progress in our current design, production and assembly activities, but also to project ourselves into the future by giving us the ability to carry out new projects. and further consolidate the “designed by ORECA” label. This new modern unit dedicated to Signes chassis coupled with the new hydrogen installations of our engine department in Magny-Cours make ORECA Technology more than ever a benchmark player with global reach.”