TOKYO — Nissan will furlough about 800 staff at its Sunderland plant in England, as output slows there due to a semiconductor scarcity, the Nikkei newspaper reported.
The employees, who signify a few tenth of the workforce on the facility, shall be requested to remain away till the chip scarcity eases and manufacturing can improve, the Nikkei stated, with out saying the place it bought the knowledge.
A Nissan spokeswoman was not capable of instantly remark.
Nissan builds the Leaf full-electric automotive, and the Qashqai and Juke crossovers in Sunderland.
Automakers world wide are scuffling with a chip scarcity brought on by robust demand from makers of smartphones and different shopper electronics amid the COVID pandemic.
A hearth at a Japanese auto chip plant final month has additional squeezed provides.
Nissan plans to chop manufacturing at a number of factories in Japan subsequent month, sources earlier informed Reuters.
Sunderland will change into Nissan’s solely European plant after the model shuts its Barcelona factory on the finish of the 12 months.