Volvo CEO Hakan Samuelson when talking about the current situation of the Chinese market, the performance did not hide the frustration which, he said, due to the receipt of the impact of new coronavirus, Volvo expected to lose at least two weeks of sales in China production and supply deliveries.
As its largest single market, Volvo sales in China in 2019 was 154,961 units, an increase of 19%, this is a good result in sales depressed market environment.
In addition to sales, the Volvo factory in Chengdu midsize SUV XC60 (parameter | pictures), Luqiao Taizhou factory production of the compact SUV XC40 (parameter | pictures), Daqing production of large sedans S90 (parameter | pictures), Polestar in Chengdu Volvo's newly opened plant in China and a number of engine assembly plant originally were healthy and normal operations, but affected by the epidemic, these factories had to shut down, many areas of Volvo's production and sales are bogged down.
Samuelson said that "after the Spring Festival holidays, such facilities are still in the shutdown state.
We are follow the instructions of local government, which means that we want to avoid reflux of its employees, the factory can not return to work. Further, it is required to stay at home, to avoid cross infection caused by human contact, as far as possible to maintain isolation. "
As he also said, while China's production has been shut down, which will affect Volvo's other car firms have also been affected, has been China's auto market is the largest market in the world has received much attention, the major car prices sales in China also came under scrutiny, but under the influence of the epidemic, the importance of the Chinese market in the production chain is also gradually presented.
Parts enterprises in China factory blocked the resumption of work
as a core area of the epidemic, Hubei Province, will face the return to work than elsewhere extension longer the case, as one of the four largest automobile production base. In 2019, Hubei Province, the cumulative production of automotive 2.24 million units, accounting for 8.8% of the national total, of which Wuhan is one of China's four passenger car base, in addition to its own brand of Dongfeng Motor, also gathered United States, Japan, France, British and five own-brand cars and the world's top 20 automotive parts including Bosch, Valeo, ZF, etc., in some enterprises. In Wuhan stagnation affecting production on the global auto industry should not be underestimated.
Has more than 60 patents Webasto sunroof, sunroof current market share in the automotive field more than 65%, the world's largest production base is located the central area of the outbreak - Wuhan, It is understood that the company already has 7 employees infected, therefore, Webasto headquarters will remain closed until February 11, employees at home as much as possible into the job done. Up to now, its Wuhan plant return to work time also did not disclose details.
Mainly provides parts to Dongfeng Shenlong, Dongfeng Nissan and Zhengzhou Nissan, Valeo and Faurecia, the same company main business units set up in Wuhan, employees of the two plants accumulate over 3000, affected by the epidemic, the two companies return to work yet to be determined.
To this end, Honda CR-V (parameter | pictures) supply brake pedal DW technology in the January 30 announced that its able to transfer production Wuhan plant to the Philippines factory, while Wei Fu Technology also said that the future, if the epidemic from the chaos of the long-term trend, there will be more or shift production to other parts of the plant are alternative production.
But this did not bring any good news for the company, a professor at Harvard Business School study of industrial manufacturing Willie Shi said in the "Forbes": "Managers will have to worry about whether their employees may be exposed to the virus, and the need to isolate two weeks ", which means that the workers return to Wuhan Spring Festival holidays or other highly contagious when working in areas back to work, companies need to accept a greater challenge.
After the resumption of work, bringing together employees from across the country to a city, most are required to self-isolation, which leads to even start too hard to do duty across the board, companies can not run the risk of regression requires full staff for the first time jobs, which makes parts enterprises return to work even more difficult. Learn more domestic car
