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MILAN (Reuters) – Automaker Stellantis is expected to see its vehicle production in Italy fall for the fifth consecutive year in 2022, mainly due to closures triggered by a prolonged shortage of chip supplies, the FIM-CISL union said on Friday.
According to data from the first months of the year, FIM-CISL estimates that Stellantis, owner of brands such as Fiat, will produce fewer than 650,000 cars by the end of the year at its Italian plants, up from 673,574 in 2021.
This would mean a deficit of about 200,000 pieces of equipment to the prospect generated through the orders already registered, the union said in its quarterly report on the production of Stellantis in the country.
Ferdinando Uliano, head of automotive at FIM-CISL, said chip shortages were the main explanation for the drop in production, although disorders were also occurring with other parties, without elaborating.
The flea challenge “will also reach 2023,” Uliano said in presenting the report.
“The war in Ukraine, the shutdown of Russian fuel supplies. . . it can only further exacerbate the challenge of raw source and costs,” he added.
A total of 235 consecutive days were lost between January and September due to production shutdowns, according to the report.
“We are not yet back to pre-pandemic levels,” Uliano said.
In the first nine months of 2022, Stellantis production in Italy fell 2. 4% year-on-year to 515,380 vehicles, FIM-CISL said. This is a smaller decrease than in the first part of the year, when disruptions in the shipping sector also affected production.
Light vehicle production at Stellantis’ plant in Sevel in central Italy, Europe’s largest van assembly plant, fell 27. 5% year-on-year.
However, car production increased by 14. 1% in the same period, driven by the new Alfa Romeo Tonale and Maserati Grecale models, whose production at the Pomigliano and Cassino plants at the end of the current quarter.
(Reporting through Giulio Piovaccari; Editing via Keith Weir)