General Motors’ Hungarian unit will suspend engine production for an unspecified period this month. The news follows confirmation on Tuesday that GM Europe German unit Opel would cut production in the rest of this year by 40,000 cars.
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General Motors Powertrain spokeswoman Edit Legradi in Hungary was quoted by national news agency MTI as saying that engine production would be suspended as GM stops production in some European plants supplied with engines from the Hungarian facility, a Reuters report said.
The measure would affect 150 of 700 workers at the factory in the western town of Szentgotthard.
“The period which we are thinking of at the moment is October. There is no decision on job cuts,” Legradi said.
Opel’s Bochum plant in Germany has been shut down for two weeks, and lines at Eisenach are due to halt next week for three weeks, just-auto reported on Tuesday. Around 5,000 employees are affected.
A spokesman said then: “As a result of the financial crisis, market demand in some countries, such as Spain, has dropped substantially, and we are adjusting our inventory accordingly.”
There are also stoppages at plants in Spain and here in the UK where GM has recently been slowing output of Astras at Ellesmere Port and vans at the joint venture facility it operates with the Renault – Nissan alliance in Luton by measures such as halting the lines for a day.
