VW will stop for ten days in São Bernardo for lack of semiconductors

By Redação AutoIndústria | 2/8/23 | Translated by Jorge Meditsch

At Anfavea’s January sales presentation on Tuesday, 2/7, the association’s president, Márcio de Lima Leite, made it clear that despite being less critical currently than one year ago, the semiconductors crisis did not finish at all. The manufacturers do not always reveal the real situation of the problem, but the daily production logistics management is still complex.

Volkswagen announced this Wednesday, 2/8, collective vacations for its employees at the Anchieta plant in São Bernardo do Campo, SP, from February 22 through March 3.

The company did not admit the lack of semiconductors, claiming “the stop was already scheduled since last year and is part of the manufacturer’s strategy to flexibilize production processes due to components supply”.

The problem is certainly less serious than one year ago, but Stellantis also admitted that difficulties in equalizing the production in Goiana, PE, due to components shortages, were affecting the offer of the Jeep Renegade in the last months of 2022.

Despite punctual difficulties still existent, since mid-last year there was a substantial reduction in plant stoppages caused by lack of semiconductors. Fenabrave and Anfavea even attributed the positive performance in January compared to the same month last year to the reduced production of most manufacturers at the time.