Volkswagen plans to halt manufacturing of the T-Roc small crossover — its prime vendor in Europe — at its Autoeuropa plant in Setubal, Portugal for a number of weeks on account of a scarcity of components.

Floods in Slovenia have severely affected an organization that provides engine components for the T-Roc, in keeping with an inner memo despatched to the 5,000 staff on the plant close to Lisbon, which was obtained by the DPA information company.

The interruption in manufacturing is scheduled to start within the first half of September and can final a number of weeks.

Based on the memo, VW Group is “working with different suppliers to search out alternate options to return to regular manufacturing within the affected plant as rapidly as attainable.”

Different crops probably will endure manufacturing interruptions, DPA reported.

“With the assistance of our worldwide provider community, element availability has been secured up to now. Nevertheless, it’s to be anticipated in the middle of September that not all element and automobile crops might be sufficiently provided, so manufacturing losses are to be anticipated,” DPA quoted a VW spokesperson as saying.

Deutsche Financial institution’s analysts mentioned on Wednesday that they anticipate European suppliers and different authentic tools producers to be affected by the identical provide chain points within the coming weeks.

Europe’s bestseller

VW construct 231,100 T-Rocs on the Setubal plant final 12 months.

European gross sales of the T-Roc within the first seven months have been 107,249, in keeping with market analysts Dataforce. The VW model’s No. 2 vendor was the Tiguan with 88,020 models offered, adopted by the Golf with a quantity of 85,730.

The T-Roc was Europe’s best-selling automobile in July, forward of the Dacia Sandero, in keeping with Dataforce.

Reuters contributed to this report