MILAN (Reuters) – Carmaker Stellantis will again cease operations at its Melfi plant in Italy for seven working days due to semiconductor shortages, a union consultant stated on Thursday.
Operations shall be stopped on Saturday and restarted on March 28 due to an absence of engine management models due to the chip shortage, stated Marco Lomio, native head of UILM metalworkers union.
“When components are shipped we work, after we do not obtain them, we do not work, that is the scenario,” Lomio stated.
Stellantis declined to remark.
The new stoppage, which is able to have an effect on all of Melfi’s greater than 7,000 employees, follows the same 10-day manufacturing freeze on the facility earlier this month in response to the worldwide chip shortage and a protest by truck drivers.
A worsening in microchip provide situations triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has additionally pushed Stellantis to plan a slowdown of manufacturing charges at Melfi, the place it produces automobiles together with Compass and Renegade Jeep fashions, from April 4.
(Reporting by Giulio Piovaccari; modifying by Jason Neely)
