Volkswagen assembly line in São José dos Pinhais (PR).| Photo: Fernando Ogura/ANPr.

Volkswagen decided to suspend activities at the factory in São José dos Pinhais, in the Metropolitan Region of Curitiba, in Paraná, due to “lack of components”. With the stoppage, employees will go on collective vacation after Carnival, between February 22nd and March 3rd.

In the same period, the São Bernardo do Campo unit, in ABC Paulista, will also stop production, informed Agência Brasil. According to the company, the stoppage had been planned since last year and is part of “the automaker’s strategy of making production processes more flexible due to the supply of components”.

Workers at the engine factory in São Carlos, in the interior of São Paulo, will be on collective vacation from February 20th to March 1st. The activities of the car factory in Taubaté follow normally in February, with two production shifts, according to the automaker. According to the ABC Metallurgists Union, this unit produces the Polo Track, a replacement for the Gol model.

The global automotive industry has faced a lack of semiconductors since 2021. It is not the first time that the automaker has paralyzed production due to lack of components. In 2022, the interruption occurred on at least two occasions in the months of May and June.