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Renault: production of Zoé at the Flins plant suspended due to a shortage of electronic components

Production of Zoé cars at the Renault plant in Flins in the Yvelines will be interrupted for three weeks in June and two days in July, due to difficulties in supplying electronic components and semiconductors, said Monday.

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Renault: production of Zoé at the Flins plant suspended due to a shortage of electronic components

Production of Zoé cars at the Renault plant in Flins in the Yvelines will be interrupted for three weeks in June and two days in July, due to difficulties in supplying electronic components and semiconductors, said Monday. Renault and unions. “The 355 people who work on the Zoé flow are affected by unemployment in APLD (long-term partial activity) due to the lack of parts”, lamented Fabien Gloagen, Force Ouvrière (FO)-Renault Group union representative, specifying that this took effect on Monday for three weeks in June and two days in July.

"Due to a lack of electronic components, the bodywork flow (assembly, painting, sheet metal) and the associated support functions will not work except personnel designated by the hierarchy", also wrote the CFDT Renault Flins union on Facebook on Friday. In a FO leaflet, he had cited the weeks of Monday June 5, June 12 and June 26, as well as July 3 and 4. "These communications from the unions follow a CSE last week in which we announced a few days not worked at the Flins site," Renault confirmed to AFP, indicating that this concerns "employees in the production sector" without specifying the number of employees concerned.

The suspension of production comes according to Renault in a “general context of crisis of electronic components and semiconductors”, the majority of which are produced in Asia. The employees had already been placed on unemployment this year in APLD, a measure allowing the company to send its employees home in the event of a drop in activity, by continuing to pay them, added Fabien Gloagen. Among the “more than 2,000 employees” at the Flins plant, a “large majority” reconditions used vehicles to refurbish them, what the group calls the “ReFactory” sector. The production sector, focused solely on the Renault Zoé, currently employs 355 employees and called on 240 temporary workers until June, according to FO.

The factory, in the “transformation phase”, should be entirely devoted to reconditioning by the end of 2024, and the reduction in production has already begun, from 150 Zoé per day to 90 theoretically this month, according to FO. Figures that Renault has not been able to confirm. The manufacturer aims to employ 3000 employees in Flins and to achieve there by 2030 “more turnover than by assembling cars there”, by generating “more than a billion euros of turnover in the circular economy", he assured in 2021.

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