Semiconductor shortage: Peugeot 308 production will resume after 28 days of shutdown

Production of the Peugeot 308 at the Stellantis (PSA) plant in Sochaux (Doubs) will resume on Wednesday after being halted for 28 days due to the global semiconductor shortage affecting the automotive industry, a carrier said on Thursday. management word

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The line of the 308 will resume

thanks to the use of an analogue needle counter which will replace the digital counter which had been fitted for a few months on this model, he specified.

Peugeot's 308 model was further impacted on the automotive industry by the global semiconductor shortage, as it deprived it of a specific dashboard power supply part.

Hope to "get back to full speed soon"

"We hope that it is sustainable and that we can resume full speed soon,"

CFDT said in a statement.

During the outage, the 700 employees concerned benefited from measures (training, replacement of colleagues, temporary assignments to other sites neighboring the group, etc.) which guaranteed the majority of them to maintain their remuneration.

The other productions of Sochaux, Peugeot 3008 and 5008 as well as Opel Grandland X, continued despite disruptions also resulting from the shortage of semiconductors.

The site employs around 6,500 permanent workers, according to FO.