UK manufacturing at risk

[JohnD]

https://www.ft.com/content/c68b80d8-5266-11ea-90ad-25e377c0ee1f

"Jaguar Land Rover is flying components in suitcases out of China as it races to prevent its UK plants from closing by the end of the month. Sir Ralf Speth, chief executive of the UK’s biggest carmaker, said the company’s British plants are “safe for this week” and the week after, but face difficulties sourcing parts from China in the weeks after, shortages which would “be a risk for overall production”. “We have flown parts in suitcases from China to the UK just to make sure that we have got the right parts,” he added.

JLR has three factories in the UK and is the latest carmaker to warn of the impact on its supply chain from the deadly coronavirus, which has spread from the epicentre in Wuhan and killed nearly 1,900 people.

In early February, Fiat Chrysler warned that one of its European plants would be forced to halt production in a matter of weeks as it struggles to source key parts from Chinese suppliers."

 

[Notch7]

I had heard South Korea has had to close car assembly plants

Singapore
Japan
Australia
etc

all fearing recession, also Germany is concerned is it was on the brink of technical recession anyway

I wont mention the B word....

 

[darrington]

I wont mention the B word....

I will though,, BOG OFF.

 

[fillyboy]

I wont mention the B word....

Do you think the B word caused the coronavirus?

 

[Notch7]

Do you think the B word caused the coronavirus?

if coronavirus gets worse it will impact the UK as we start to go down the plughole of trade friction

 

[Mottie]

Do you think the B word caused the coronavirus?

It did didn’t it? Bats. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/02/200210144854.htm

 

[JohnD]

“If we miss a critical part then there might be a risk for overall production,” Sir Ralf told journalists at an event unveiling the company’s autonomous electric car, Project Vector. He added that the “very first critical part” facing a shortage was the key fob: “We have to take all the key systems apart and every car only gets at the moment one key fob just to make sure we can produce.”

The chief executive, who will step back from his position in September, added that car sales in China are nonexistent. “Nothing is happening . . . it’s zero."

 

[fillyboy]

if coronavirus gets worse it will impact the UK as we start to go down the plughole of trade friction

It will impact the whole world, we know this. What does trade friction have to do with it? that wont have any effect till December surely.

 

[JohnD]

And iphones.

"Apple’s biggest iPhone plant is struggling to return to full production after China’s new year holiday because of restrictions on worker movement caused by the coronavirus, adding to concerns that the outbreak will have a lasting effect on the US company.

Contract manufacturer Foxconn assembles many of Apple’s newest iPhones at a huge factory complex at Zhengzhou in China’s Henan province. At full production, more than 200,000 workers put together iPhones on its assembly lines. But Foxconn faces multiple challenges to staffing the factory, which has partially resumed production as workers trickle back from an extended holiday break.

On Tuesday, the unit responsible for iPhone production stopped accepting workers from outside the city, pointing to issues in housing workers in need of quarantine."

 

[EddieM]

Look on the bright side, us vile animals stop gobbling up all the world's resources for a bit.

 

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[bourbon]

Here's a radical Idea. If JLR sourced all of its components in the UK, we wouldn't have this problem

 

[fillyboy]

Here's a radical Idea. If JLR sourced all of its components in the UK, we wouldn't have this problem

I doubt we make those particular parts, and if we did, they'd be too expensive. Europe tends to outsource a lot of it's manufacturing to China, even the German firms, although I was pleasantly surprised a few months back having bought a new Makita drill to find it was made in Romania.

 

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[durhamplumber]

I had heard South Korea has had to close car assembly plants

Singapore
Japan
Australia
etc

all fearing recession, also Germany is concerned is it was on the brink of technical recession anyway

I wont mention the B word....

Why not Notchy.....goes without saying,,,Brexit caused Corona Virus