Hyundai plant will suspend the car production in St. Petersburg

Hyundai plant in St. Petersburg will suspend the car production for the non-working days from October 30 to November 7. The press service of the enterprise informed the agency "AUTOSTAT" about it, by adding that the production plan for 2021 remains unchanged and provides for the production of 230 thousand cars.

As previously reported by AUTOSTAT, by the results of nine months of 2021, St. Petersburg plant Hyundai produced 178,300 cars, which is 20% higher than the indicator for the same period of the previous year. The enterprise produces Hyundai Solaris sedan and Creta crossover, popular in the Russian market, as well as the Kia Rio sedan and the Rio X cross-hatchback. It should be noted that in July of this year, the Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Rus plant launched the mass production of the second generation of the Hyundai Creta crossover ...

We also add that the largest Russian automakers - AVTOVAZ, GAZ and KAMAZ - do not plan to suspend the production for non-working days, as they are backbone enterprises with a high proportion of vaccinated employees.