The GM Authority blog, citing a report from Reuters, says GM will temporarily shut down the Flint Assembly and Fort Wayne Assembly plants in the U.S. next week, along with the Silao Assembly plant in Mexico.
The Fort Wayne and Silao plants produce the Chevy Silverado 1500 and GMC Sierra 1500 pickup trucks, and the Flint Assembly handles production of the heavy-duty variants of the two pickups.
“The global semiconductor shortage remains complex and very fluid,” GM said in a statement sent to Reuters yesterday. “The recent scheduling adjustments have been driven by temporary parts shortages caused by semiconductor supply constraints from international markets experiencing Covid-19-related restrictions.”
“This period will provide us with the opportunity to complete unfinished vehicles at the impacted assembly plants and ship those units to dealers,” the statement continued.
GM has experienced recurring production setbacks due to the chip shortage and has lost production of hundreds of thousands of vehicle units through the first seven months of the year, the GM Authority story says. The automaker has prioritized its full-size truck and SUV models amid the chip shortage, idling its car and crossover plants in order to free up chips for its more popular and profitable large vehicle lines.
Source: GM Authority
