Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles (VWCV) is suspending vehicle production because of the coronavirus.
This applies from today for an anticipated 10 working days. The production sites affected are in Hannover (T6.1, Amarok and eCrafter), Poznań in Poland (Caddy and T6.1) and Września in Poland (Crafter).
VWCV said it was stopping production because of the uncertain sales climate, supply chain volatility and on health grounds.
Thomas Sedran, chairman of the VWCV brand’s board of management, said: “The coronavirus pandemic is naturally having an impact on our entire business: on supply chains, on our production operation, on sales and on our distribution and service partners.”
In close consultation with our works councils and within the group network, we have therefore decided at Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles to shut down production at all three sites.
“This is the only right decision to take, not least so as not to expose our workers to any unnecessary health risk.”
Bertina Murkovic, Chairwoman of the VWCV Works Council: “The Works Council is fully behind the management team’s decision to shut down production in Hannover.
“For all of us on the Works Council the health and the safeguarding of the workers and their families is the absolute priority. All the measures being taken are designed to curb the spread of the virus. In order to achieve this the workforce at Volkswagen is solidly pulling together.”