MILAN (Reuters) – A global shortage of semiconductors could cut Stellantis’ production in Italy by 220,000 vehicles this year, the FIM CISL union said, noting that 2022 would be the fifth consecutive year of falling volumes on the peninsula.
In its latest report on the group’s Italian production, which includes Fiat, Peugeot, Citroën and Opel, among others, the organization specifies that Stellantis produced 351,890 vehicles in the first half of the year at its sites in Italy, i.e. nearly 14% less than the last year over the same period, the sites of Melfi and Sevel being the most affected
Based on first-half figures and second-half production assumptions, Stellantis could produce between 200,000 and 220,000 fewer vehicles over the full year than in 2021, said union general secretary Ferdinando Uliano.
“It’s as if one of the group’s major factories were shut down for a year,” he said, adding that semiconductor supply difficulties would still affect production in 2023.
A spokesperson for Stellantis declined to comment on FIM CISL’s figures and forecasts, simply recalling that the group had been managing its activities in real time and site by site since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
(Report Giulio Piovaccari, French version Marc Angrand, edited by Kate Entringer)
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