First it was unusual summer heat making factories too hot to assemble cars, now smoke from Russian wildfires has hit output. Volkswagen’s plant in the Russian city of Kaluga resumed operations earlier on Thursday after being suspended on Wednesday due to smoke from wildfires in the regions adjacent to the region, a plant spokesman said.
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The smoke had cleared from the plant’s workshops by Wednesday evening, the spokesman told Prime-Tass.
The plant opened in November 2007, and its planned capacity is 150,000 cars a year.
Volkswagen started full-cycle production at the plant in October 2009, switching from SKD to CKD kit assembly.
