Dacia halts production and sends employees home for four days

Carmaker automobile Dacia will to halt activities at its Mioveni plant for four days, on October 30 and 31, as well as November 13 and 14, in order to adjust its production schedule to market demand. Dacia officials announced the activities of the other plants that operate on the Automobile Dacia platform would not be suspended. “Car part production, the activity of certain sections of the Mechanical Plant, that of the CKD centre (packaged car parts destined for export and assembly in other plants), as well and car deliveries will go on interrupted,” reads a statement released by Automobile Dacia car producer. In January 2008, the Mioveni plant reached a rate of 1,300 cars per day, the highest in the plant’s history. Considering the pace communicated by Dacia, the four-day halt in production translates as 5,200 units less from a total of 310,000 units scheduled for this year. The company earlier this year went through another period when production was interrupted, in March and April. At that time, its employees went on a general strike that lasted for three weeks. The company put the losses registered as a result of the strike at 13 million euros.