A four-day strike taking place at Volkswagen’s Puebla plant is starting to affect operations at other companies in the state and throughout Mexico.
In recent years, 82 autoparts companies — which supply Volkswagen — have set up operations in the Puebla industrial park in which Volkswagen’s assembly plant is located.
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There are also 300 other suppliers throughout the country that also supply the Puebla plant, though not exclusively, and the strike is causing contingency problems for the industry as a whole.
Mexican National Autoparts Industry Director of Market Analysis Felix Rojas said Volkswagen and other companies with auto-assembly operations in Mexico were the reason more than 1.4 billion dollars was invested in the nation’s autoparts industry last year.
