BMW Steyr and the consequences of the war: “We drive on sight week after week”

Two events determined Alexander Susanek’s first two years as head of the BMW plant in Steyr: on the one hand the corona pandemic, on the other hand the resulting shortage of semiconductors. Another problem has been added for regarding a month: Because, as reported, factories in Ukraine have reduced the construction of cable harnesses because of the war, Europe’s car manufacturers have had to take shifts out of most of their plants. In Steyr, the largest engine plant in the BMW Group,