EFE.- Japanese carmaker Toyota is going to cut its global September production by 40% compared to its previous plan for chip and other component supply problems, the Nikkei business daily reported this morning.
The automotive company has set itself the goal of producing some 900,000 vehicles next month, according to its production plan, but now it is contemplating reducing it to around 500,000 units, the newspaper said.
The main reason would be the impact of the lack of chips in its supply chain and the impact of the increase in Covid-19 cases in Southeast Asia by the Delta variant of the virus in its provisioning of other components.
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The production cut will lead to the temporary suspension of some of its assembly lines at various factories in Japan.
In fact, the company sent a calendar with the layoffs in 12 of its domestic plants and the affected models, about 50, but did not respond to queries regarding the rest of the operations.
According to Nikkei, some cut will also take place in the plants that the company has in North America, China or Europe, although it did not offer concrete figures.
The manufacturer has not yet issued any official statement in this regard.
With this cutout, Toyota’s production in September will be much lower than the 840,000 units it produced in the same month of 2020, when the demand began to recover after the confinements and blockades that the outbreak of the pandemic entailed.
The Japanese manufacturer had already been carrying out temporary suspensions on nationwide assembly lines between July and early August due to a surge in Covid-19 infections in Vietnam that affected its component supply chains.
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