Suppliers told to suspend the conveyor AvtoVAZ – RBC

The plant AvtoVAZ in Togliatti

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On Friday, there was an unscheduled stop AvtoVAZ line-0, which are going to Lada Largus and model of the alliance Renault-Nissan – Renault Sandero, Logan and Nissan Almera, told RBC two suppliers Togliatti plant. According to one of them, the pipeline stood idle 320 minutes (more than 5 hours) because of the “incompleteness” of the disruption of supplies door locks. The culprit downtime he called the supplier Renault-Nissan, adding that on Thursday had a similar problem. Another source close to the management of AvtoVAZ, to stop the assembly line does not know, but I heard that on the assembly line does not work welding line.

AvtoVAZ on request RBC did not answer, representatives of the Russian units Renault and Nissan did not answer calls.

This is not the first stop of the conveyor AvtoVAZ due disruptions of supply of automotive components. This year, at least twice AvtoVAZ halts production – in June and October, once – at the end of 2014. Earlier, the interlocutors RBC among the suppliers of Automobile said that one minute of downtime costs the plant branches 30-40 thousand. Rub. loss. It turns out that 320 minutes are 9,6-12,8 million rubles.

So far, the delivery schedule disrupted Russian counterparts – holding “United Automobile Technologies”, “AvtoVAZagregat” and the group “Autocomponent.” Company guilty of Friday’s prime interlocutors RBC difficult to name, saying only that it is foreign.

At the end of November Togliatti portal tltgorod.ru reported problems AvtoVAZ to produce auto components from Turkey. Because of this alleged November 25 pipeline stood idle for about three hours. The representative of the factory then did not comment on it. “We have a welding-0 situation is such that the third shift there, but the pipeline is not working and people engaged in cleaning,” – wrote on December 2 one of the forums AvtoVAZ workers.

December 15 at the conveyor B -0 AvtoVAZ plans to start mass production of the new model Xray.

On Monday, the newspaper “Vedomosti” reported that AvtoVAZ could for a month – from December 18 until January 18 – to suspend production of cars at the central site in Togliatti. RBC also wrote about this on November 10, with reference to the letter from the chairman of the trade union of the plant Sergei Zaitsev president of Bo Andersson. And then, and now the representative of AvtoVAZ denied stopping the conveyor.

Source RBC AvtoVAZ said that in 2016 the company plans to move to a four-day working week from 15 February to 15 August. According to him, this issue was raised at the last board of directors of the company. On the transition to four-day previously reported portal “Auto Parts».

According to preliminary data of the Association of European Businesses in November Lada sales declined by 29% to 21.6 thousand. Cars, compared to the same period last year for 11 months – by 30.2%, to 245.7 thousand. machines.