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Automotive industry leader Volkswagen reopens the world’s largest auto manufacturing plant. The giant’s base in the German city of Wolfsburg will reopen on Monday after it closed due to the spread of the coronavirus in Europe.
The group’s official announcement made it clear that work at the factory will initially be restored from 10 to 15%, with approximately 40% of its capacity activated next week. The first cars that will leave the factory after its reopening will be Golf.
Volkswagen, Renault, PSA Group press the button to restart their production
However, some of them will not “shoot blindly” and wait for auto sales to resume.
“The step-by-step opening of production is an important signal to our employees, distributors, suppliers and, in general, to the economy,” said Ralf Brandstetter, manager of passenger car operations at Volkswagen, adding:
“From the point of view of managing this crisis, this is just the first stupidity. An additional boost is needed to stimulate demand in Germany and across Europe to increase production volumes consistently.”
According to the German group, 8,000 workers at the Wolfburg base will return to work earlier this week. At the same time, around 2,600 company suppliers, most of which are also based in Germany, will resume production for this plant.
By the end of this week, Volkswagen expects 1,400 cars to leave the factory. Plans are expected to increase production to more than 6,000 vehicles next week.
The headquarters of the German group is located in Wolfsburg and employs a total of 50,000 people. More than 700,000 vehicles were manufactured there last year.
The automotive industry opens plants in one of the most affected pandemics in Europe
After production “stalled” in the last month
