Manufacturing at Oxford’s Mini plant will likely be suspended for 3 working days due a scarcity of laptop chips.

BMW mentioned its Cowley manufacturing facility won’t manufacture automobiles on Friday or on Tuesday and Wednesday after the financial institution vacation weekend.

A spokeswoman mentioned the corporate had taken steps to minimise additional disruption and was monitoring the scenario each day.

Different firms are additionally being hit by a worldwide scarcity of laptop chips.

Jaguar Land Rover has suspended manufacturing at its Citadel Bromwich and Halewood factories this week for a similar cause.

The scarcity has developed because of a fast restoration in demand for chips from the motor business, at a time when obtainable provides had been being snapped up by the buyer electronics sector.

The plant within the metropolis employs 4,500 folks and produces about 5,000 automobiles per week.

In September 2020, BMW postponed a call to chop 400 out of 950 agency staff at the factory due to “unexpected improvements” in demand.

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