Ford Motor is considerably reducing manufacturing at six crops in North America because of an ongoing international scarcity of semiconductor chips, together with services that produce extremely worthwhile pickup vans.

The actions fluctuate by plant however vary from time beyond regulation shift cancellations to services being closed for as much as three weeks from April by June. Or a mixture of each.

The impacted crops are in Illinois, Ohio, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri and Ontario, Canada. They produce an array of merchandise – from F-150 pickups and vans to the Ford Explorer SUV and Ford Escape crossover.

Manufacturing of the F-150 in Dearborn, Michigan will probably be down the weeks of April 5 and April 12, the corporate stated. Ford is also canceling time beyond regulation shifts on the plant the weeks of April 26, Might 10, Might 31 and June 21. One other plant in Missouri that produces the full-size F-150 will probably be idled for per week beginning Monday. Time beyond regulation shifts on the plant are being terminated for eight weeks by most of June.

Ford beforehand stated it anticipated the scarcity might decrease its earnings by $1 billion to $2.5 billion in 2021. With out releasing any new steering, the corporate stated it “will present an replace on the monetary influence of the semiconductor scarcity” when it experiences its first quarter earnings on April 28.

Semiconductors are key elements used within the infotainment, energy steering and braking programs of recent automobiles, amongst different issues. As a number of crops shut down final 12 months because of Covid, suppliers directed semiconductors away from automakers to different industries, making a scarcity after shopper demand snapped again stronger than anticipated.

Consulting agency AlixPartners estimates the chip scarcity will lower $60.6 billion in revenue from the worldwide automotive business this 12 months. The scarcity is impacting each automaker in another way.

Ford’s Oakville Meeting in Canada, which produces the Ford Edge crossover, will probably be down for 3 weeks starting the week of April 12 – the longest of any of the crops. One other facility in Kentucky that produces the Ford Escape and Lincoln Corsair will probably be down starting that then for 2 weeks.

Different crops that produce the Ford Explorer and Lincoln Aviator SUVs, Ford Transit and E-Sequence vans and medium-duty vans and chassis cabs could have time beyond regulation shifts eradicated.

Correction: This text was up to date to replicate that Ford is reducing manufacturing at six crops. A earlier model of this text misstated the variety of crops.