Peugeot, Citroen and Vauxhall close all European factories due to coronavirus

Groupe PSA – the mother or father business of Peugeot, Citroen, DS, Opel and Vauxhall – is to shut all its generation amenities right until March 27.

The shutdown will be gradual, with the to start with closures becoming enacted nowadays (16 March) at the firm’s Mulhouse plant in France, and Madrid generation facility in Spain. Other crops will close in excess of the following 4 times, with the Vauxhall plant in Luton, and the PSA Trnava Plant in Slovakia, becoming the very last to close, on March 19.

The PSA closure follows similar information from Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, which introduced the short-term closure of the greater part of its European operations. It also casts doubt on discussions underway in between Vauxhall and the Uk Federal government that the Ellesmere Port plant could give in excess of manufacturing unit space to make professional medical ventilators, additional of which are needed for the treatment of coronavirus victims.

A assertion produced by Groupe PSA mentioned: “Due to the acceleration noticed in recent times of critical COVID-19 scenarios close to selected generation web sites, supply disruptions from key suppliers, as perfectly as the sudden drop in the automobile markets, the Chairman of the Executive Board with the customers of the crisis device, made a decision the theory of the closure of the vehicle generation web sites, in accordance to the subsequent routine and right until March 27.”

The company included: “The web page administration groups will put into action the web page closure strategies locally, which will be done in coordination with the social associates. Groupe PSA remind that right until then, compliance with the barrier steps, going past the recommendations of the overall health authorities on the web sites, are the ideal protection to reduce the unfold of the virus.”

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