India’s biggest automobile manufacturer Maruti Suzuki on Wednesday said it has decided to shut down passenger vehicle manufacturing operations in two Haryana-based plants.Like most automakers in the country, Maruti Suzuki is also facing a slump in sales and recorded a 33 per cent drop in sales in August.
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BERLIN, Sept. 3 (Xinhua) — Volkswagen subsidiary Audi has missed several deadlines and even failed to “submit all necessary paperwork” for most of the affected diesel cars, the German business newspaper and broadcaster Bayerische Rundfunk reported on Tuesday.
Citing from a government response to a parliamentary inquire by Germany's Green Party, Handelsblatt and Bayerische Rundfunk reported that Audi was considerably behind schedule in removing software manipulations of Euro 6 and Euro 5 diesel vehicles.
According to the reports, Audi failed to provide application documents for many of Audi's car models and necessary software updates could not be approved by the German Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA).
Audi's A8 luxury sedan with a 4.2-liter Euro 6 engine is also affected. The KBA had ordered a recalled of the car about two years ago, after the Environmental Action Germany (DUH) had found the highest nitrogen oxide values it ever measured for a Euro 6 vehicle.
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BERLIN, Sept. 2 (Xinhua) — German automotive and industrial supplier Schaeffler has reduced working time by an average 25 percent for about 250 of its 500 employees in the special machine construction sector at its Erlangen-Frauenaurach location, the company announced on Monday.
Schaeffler did not specify how long the new regime would last. The measure would be in effect “until further notice,” a company spokesperson said.
Last week, Schaeffler announced that as of Dec. 1, contracts of employees whose working hours had been increased from 35 to 40 hours per week would be reduced to the agreed 35-hour week.
Back in March, the company had presented an efficiency program that included the possibility of short-time work for its employees. At the time, Schaeffler had also said that it would cut 700 jobs in Germany.
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