DETROIT — Ford Motor is as soon as once more chopping manufacturing of its extremely worthwhile F-150 pickup truck and two different autos subsequent week as a result of ongoing world scarcity of semiconductor chips.

The automaker on Thursday confirmed its Oakville Meeting Plant in Canada and Kansas Metropolis Meeting Plant in Missouri might be down the week of Aug. 30. Oakville builds the Ford Edge and Lincoln Nautilus crossovers. Kansas Metropolis assembles the F-150.

Ford additionally will minimize two of three shifts subsequent week at its Dearborn Truck Plant in Michigan, which produces the F-150.

“Our groups proceed benefiting from our out there semiconductor allocation, discovering distinctive options to supply as many high-quality autos as doable to our sellers and prospects,” the corporate mentioned in a press release.

The Kansas Metropolis plant was already down this week as a result of chip scarcity.

The components scarcity has triggered rolling shutdowns of automotive meeting vegetation globally all through this 12 months. Ford has been hit notably arduous by the shortage of chips, shedding about 50% of its deliberate manufacturing within the second quarter.

The origin of the scarcity dates to early final 12 months when Covid triggered rolling shutdowns of auto meeting vegetation. Because the services closed, the wafer and chip suppliers diverted the components to different sectors similar to shopper electronics, which weren’t anticipated to be as harm by stay-at-home orders.

The issue is predicted to value the worldwide automotive trade $110 billion in income in 2021, based on consulting agency AlixPartners.