Volkswagen temporarily suspends production at Brazilian factories

Volkswagen will take collective vacations and temporarily suspend production at three of its factories in Brazil due to the lack of components for the manufacture of vehicles. The stop period in all of them will be 10 days, amended at Carnival, which takes place next Tuesday (21).

The information was confirmed to CNN by the automaker’s press office.

“The downtime (…) are part of the automaker’s strategy of making production processes more flexible due to the supply of components,” the company said in a statement.

The plant in São Bernardo do Campo, in the metropolitan region of São Paulo, will be on collective vacation between February 22nd and March 3rd. The shutdown, according to the company, had already been scheduled since last year due to the difficulty in finding parts for the assembly lines.

The São Bernardo unit is the oldest of the German manufacturer in Brazil and is where the Nivus, Polo, Virtus and Saveiro line models come from today.

The factory in São José dos Pinhais (PR), responsible for T-Cross, will also have collective vacations between February 22nd and March 3rd, while the engine factory in São Carlos (SP) will stop between February 20th and September 1st. March.

The Taubaté (SP) unit, the largest in Brazil, will continue to function normally, with two production shifts.

The shock in the global production and supply of chips and semiconductors, used in the manufacture of vehicles, was one of the main bottlenecks generated in the pandemic years, and, despite the wide economic reopening, it still takes time to normalize.

According to Anfavea, an association that represents automakers, 250,000 vehicles were no longer produced in the country last year due to lack of electronic components.

Source: CNN Brasil

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