“The lack of electronic components continues to affect the auto industry, including Dacia. We are making every effort to limit impact on production and are steadily working with our suppliers. (…) However, the vehicle plant in Mioveni halted production on Monday, July 26,” Dacia official said.
On the other hand, Ford Romania returned to working in three shifts at its Craiova plant in July and to a pace of 1,000 cars/ day.
Ford’s Craiova plant, along with the plant in Cologne, Germany, is less affected by the microchip shortage, considering other plants of the carmaker stopped working for even as much as over 20 days in 2021, while Craiova witnessed a six-day halt and a number of days of working in two shifts instead of three. Ford made this decision to protect its best-selling models, Puma and Fiesta.
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)