Dacia is the latest victim in an ever-growing list of manufacturers that have to stop production due to a shortage of computer chips. Production in home country Romania has been stopped for a week.
Many brands have to reduce production here in Europe or even shut it down completely due to a shortage of computer chips. Now it is hit with Dacia. That reports Romania-insider.com based on statements by the Romanian employment minister. According to him, the work in Mioveni has stopped. It is not yet clear when it is expected to be able to continue, but the shortage will in any case affect more than half of total production. Apparently enough to shut down the whole lot.
According to another local medium, Profit, parent company Renault is working on a solution. There would be a change in the production schedule to be able to continue with scaled down production despite the shortages. For the roughly 8,000 employees in Mioveni, according to the Romanian minister, government support is being looked into. He suggests there may be jobs at stake otherwise.
The shortage of chips has turned into a real crisis, now that many brands have to cease production or reduce production. Although a Taiwanese chip manufacturer is responding to the shortages, it does not seem to be resolved just like that. Audi CEO Markus Duesmann rang the bell last week and states that this is a ‘European problem’. He is aiming for European production of such chips to prevent shortages in the future as much as possible, because there is now a great deal of dependence on Asian production in particular. Various European countries have now committed a total of € 50 billion to invest in local production of ‘technological hardware’, including such computer chips.