MEXICO CITY — Nissan is planning short-term work stoppages at three Mexican crops for a number of unspecified days in June due to manufacturing changes wanted to handle a scarcity of semiconductor chips.
Nissan’s Aguascalientas Plant 1 will shut down for seven days in June, whereas the identical facility’s Plant 2 will shut for in the future within the month. The corporate didn’t give particulars of which days.
In the meantime, the corporate stated its Cuernavaca plant in Morelos state will briefly halt operations for seven days in June. It additionally didn’t specify the dates.
“We are going to proceed to creating changes to our manufacturing course of to be able to decrease impacts to the auto trade each domestically and globally,” the corporate stated in a quick assertion to Reuters, including that it’ll work to get better misplaced manufacturing.
The Aguacalientes Plant 1 assembles Nissan’s Versa, Kicks and March fashions, Plant 2 places collectively the Sentra. The Cuernavaca facility makes the Versa on one line and it produces NV200 cargo van and pickup vans together with the Frontier on the second line.
In the course of the first 4 months of this yr, Nissan was Mexico’s second-biggest auto assembler after Normal Motors, based on information from nationwide statistics company INEGI.
In the meantime, Stellantis stated it would shut its Toluca plant in Mexico through the week of June 7 as a result of chip scarcity. The Toluca plant builds the Dodge Journey, Fiat Freemont and Jeep Compass. The plant was previously a part of Fiat Chrysler Vehicles, which merged with France’s PSA Group in January to type Stellantis.