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VW might have to cut production further due to chip shortage

Mark White by Mark White
August 24, 2021
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A new Volkswagen Crafter production line is seen at the newly opened Volkswagen factory in Wrzesnia near Poznan, Poland September 9, 2016. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel/File Photo

BERLIN, Aug 19 (Reuters) – Volkswagen (VOWG_p.DE) may need to cut production further due to a semiconductor supply crunch, the German carmaker said on Thursday, after a report that Toyota (7203.T)would slash output by 40% in September.

The auto industry is facing renewed strains after a recovery in demand stretched supply chains earlier this year, with COVID-19 outbreaks in Asia hitting both chip production and operations at commercial ports.

“We currently expect supply of chips in the third quarter to be very volatile and tight,” Volkswagen, the No.2 volume carmaker behind Toyota, said in answer to a request for comment by Reuters. “We can’t rule out further changes to production.”

The Wolfsburg-based carmaker said it expects the situation to improve by the end of the year and aims to make up for production shortfalls in the second half as far as possible.

Rival Toyota (7203.T) will reduce global production for September by 40% from its previous plan, the Nikkei business daily reported earlier, sending its shares 4.4% lower in Tokyo. read more

Shares in European carmakers and suppliers were also broadly weaker across with BMW(BMWG.DE), Daimler(DAIGn.DE), Renault (RENA.PA), Stellantis (STLA.MI)and Volkswagen all down by more than 2%.

The latest production woes follow news that German chipmaker Infineon(IFXGn.DE), the top automotive supplier, had been forced to suspend production at one of its plants in Malaysia in June due to a coronavirus outbreak. read more

Infineon CEO Reinhard Ploss said on Aug. 3 that the automotive industry faced “acute supply limitations across the entire value chain” and it would take until well into 2022 for supply and demand to be brought back into balance.

Reporting by Ilona Wissenbach, writing by Douglas Busvine
Editing by Caroline Copley and Emma Thomasson

Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.



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Mark White is the editor of the ProcurementNation, a Media Outlet covering supply chain and logistics issues. He joined The New York Times in 2007 as an commodities reporter, and most recently served as foreign-exchange editor in New York.

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