When it does not want… Already penalized by a global shortage of semiconductors which has been slowing down its activity for months, the car manufacturing plant Stellantis (ex PSA) from the Janais, to Rennes, is once again faced with a “supply disruption” of certain materials. Consequence: the site installed in Chartres-de-Bretagne will be shut down on Monday February 21 and Tuesday February 22, pushing a large part of the 2,500 employees into partial unemployment. When can activity resume? Impossible to say for the moment as the supply chains operate day by day. The management of the factory has undertaken to warn its employees “as soon as possible” of the return to normal and has set up a toll-free number. The decision could fall on Tuesday at the end of the afternoon.
At the start of the school year in September, the Janais factory had separated from all its temporary workers by ending around 150 contracts and had extended partial unemployment due to the shortage of semiconductors. A few weeks ago, she had found a higher level of activity which allowed him to consider the return of a second team.
The French car market was at a historic low in 2021, as it had been in 2020. PSA had managed to climb to first place ahead of Renault, thanks to the good sales of its Peugeot 208 and the 2008 and 3008 SUVs. The Rennes plant produces the Citroën C5 Aircross and the Peugeot 5008. Created in 1961, it should produce the CR3which will take over from the C5 Aircross by 2024 or 2025, with production forecasts of “100,000 vehicles each year”.