Categories: Business

Main plant in Wolfsburg: VW switches on belts again at its headquarters

After almost a month and a half of forced pause in the Corona crisis, the VW Group is slowly starting car production again at its Wolfsburg headquarters.

In Zwickau, Saxony, where the new ID.3 E-model is being manufactured, as well as the SUVs and small cars in Bratislava (Slovakia), the company had recently started the restart. In addition to Wolfsburg, Hanover and Emden as well as other locations in Europe are to be added.

During the disruption – triggered in mid-March by slumping car demand, globally capped supply chains and factory contagion risks – VW had kept only small standby teams at the plants. They were preparing a cautious resumption of operations. Now stricter hygiene concepts, distance rules and shorter cleaning intervals are taking effect. In addition, shift schedules should be reconstructed in order to temporarily have fewer employees in the same room at the same time.

Core brand managing director Ralf Brandstätter, Chief Human Resources Officer Gunnar Kilian, core brand production chief Andreas Tostmann and works council chief Bernd Osterloh want to explain details. Lower Saxony’s prime minister and VW supervisor Stephan Weil (SPD) is also expected on Monday for the early shift of the first day of production.

The German component plants (Braunschweig, Salzgitter, Kassel) have also resumed most of their operations with intra-group deliveries. In China, all locations are back on the grid.

“Health comes before the number of pieces,” Reinhard de Vries, Managing Director of Technology and Logistics at Volkswagen Sachsen, declared his start in Zwickau last Thursday. For the time being, 50 vehicles are produced there in just one shift per day – a third of the previous quantity. The new production rules are to come into play. VW is also ramping up operations in stages at the Chemnitz engine plant. The Gläserne Manufaktur in Dresden, where cars have been delivered again since Thursday, will also follow today.

The truck and bus subsidiary MAN in Munich will start on Monday. The VW-US plant in Chattanooga (Tennessee) will return from a break on May 3. In contrast to Germany, where tens of thousands of employees had been registered for short-time work, the US colleagues were most recently on unpaid compulsory leave. Factories in Latin America and South Africa are scheduled to start operating in early May.

Matthew Velter

With 5 years of experience as an editor, Matthew has been a crucial part of eTrendy Stock since its inception. He looks after the editing of news content published on eTrendy Stock. Apart from investing his time in editing, he also provides well-researched news articles for the U.S. niche. Mathew studied at University of central Florida.

Recent Posts

<div>Delta Exchange: Pioneering INR-Settled Crypto F&O Trading in India</div>

In the last three months of the year, trading volumes for cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and…

13 hours ago

Pi Network’s Token Sheds 75% in Three Months as Skepticism Grows

The Pi Network (PI) has plummeted over 75% in the past three months, collapsing from…

18 hours ago

Chummy Tees Review Rising Trends in the Funny T-Shirt Industry

Sonora, California, 30th March 2025, ZEX PR WIRE, As humor continues to shape popular culture,…

2 days ago

UBX Powers UBC’s 15x Surge: AI and DePIN Innovation Reshaping Crypto Investments

Singapore, 30th March 2025, ZEX PR WIRE, Recently, the native token UBC issued by the…

2 days ago

Tether Eyes U.S. Stablecoin Launch Amid Regulatory Tailwinds

Tether is weighing a crucial entry into the U.S. domestic stablecoin market as CEO Paolo…

4 days ago

Ripple Partners with Chipper Cash to Expand Crypto-Powered Payments in Africa

Ripple has joined forces with African payments firm Chipper Cash to bolster crypto-enabled cross-border payments,…

5 days ago