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TODAY • 3:52 AM
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After almost a month and a half in the Corona crisis, the VW Group is slowly starting car production again at its headquarters in Wolfsburg on Monday. In Zwickau, Saxony, where the new E-Model ID.3 is manufactured, as well as for SUVs and small cars in Bratislava, Slovakia, the company recently started a restart.
In addition to Wolfsburg, Hannover and Emden as well as other locations in Europe will be added. During the outage, triggered in mid-March by slumping demand for cars, global shrinking supply chains, and risks of contagion in factories, VW had only kept small teams on call at its plants. They prepared for a cautious resumption of operations. Stricter hygiene concepts, distance rules and shorter cleaning intervals are now applied. Also, shift plans need to be modified to temporarily have fewer employees in the same room at the same time.
The MAN truck and bus subsidiary in Munich also starts on Monday. The VW-US plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee will return from the break on May 3. Unlike in Germany, where a short-term job had been recorded for tens of thousands of employees, colleagues from the USA. USA They have recently had an unpaid forced leave. Factories in Latin America and South Africa are slated to begin operating in early May.
