The company, which belongs to the VW Group, has around 34,000 employees worldwide, 14,000 of them in Germany.
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Munich The truck and bus manufacturer MAN is affected by a production outage lasting several weeks due to the Ukraine war. This means short-time work for around 11,000 employees in Germany, the company said on Wednesday. In addition, an unspecified number of employees abroad are affected. The company, which belongs to the VW Group, has around 34,000 employees worldwide, 14,000 of them in Germany.
According to MAN, there has been a standstill in the Munich and Krakow truck plants since March 14 and significant failures at the Nuremberg, Salzgitter and Wittlich sites. This threatens “a loss of truck production for several weeks and a significant reduction in production in the second quarter”. Bus production, on the other hand, is “not significantly affected”.
According to MAN, the reason for the standstill is that suppliers of cable harnesses cannot produce or can only produce to a very limited extent at their Ukrainian locations. Immediately after the start of the war, they began to “duplicate” supplier structures in other countries, but this took several months, said CEO Alexander Vlaskamp.
Other measures to deal with the crisis include a comprehensive spending freeze on non-business-critical activities and a hiring freeze. The board of directors also intends to forego part of their salary in the next three months.
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