Ford shuts Dagenham plant and suspends European production in response to Coronavirus outbreak

Ford has introduced it is suspending manufacturing at its European web pages as a final result of the Coronavirus outbreak. The American large has also shut its Dagenham plant in London. 

In a statement, the firm verified that it shut doorways to all but upkeep and safety personnel at its Valencia overall body and engine manufacturing plant on Monday 16 March, soon after 3 personnel based mostly at the web page analyzed good for the Covid-19 sickness. 

Ford of Europe will observe this up by “temporarily suspending” car and engine manufacturing at the rest of its European vegetation from Thursday, with the closures expected to past for a number of weeks. 

“While the influence of coronavirus at our amenities so far has been constrained luckily, its effects on our personnel, dealers, suppliers and customers, as nicely as European society as a total, is unparalleled,” explained Stuart Rowley, president, Ford of Europe. 

“Due to the remarkable influence this ongoing crisis is acquiring on the European marketplace and the provider industry – with each other with the recent steps by countries to prohibit all but vital vacation and individual get hold of – we are briefly halting manufacturing at our principal continental Europe manufacturing web pages.”

Production at Ford of Europe headquarters in Cologne, Germany, will be suspended, as will the company’s other German plant in Saarlouis and its Romanian plant. 

Ford has verified that provides to these web pages have become increasingly interrupted for the duration of the outbreak, when declining product sales of vehicles signifies that some dealerships in Europe will need to have to briefly shut down.

The announcement arrives soon soon after PSA resolved to suspend manufacturing at all of its European factories, when the Volkswagen Group has started the procedure of selectively suspending exercise at manufacturing web pages in the worst afflicted areas of the continent. FCA has shut almost all its European vegetation.

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