On Sunday, Kia Corp, South Korea’s second-biggest automaker and one of the leading car companies, said it would suspend one of its eight domestic plants. This is because dozens of staff at the works were infected with Covid-19 in recent days. The company’s Sohari plant can briefly stop operations because the variety of COVID-19 infected teams has fully grown.
Covid-19 Fear
As indicated by sources, many works staff at the Kia Motors Sohari plant were determined to have the Covid disease. For a possible eruption within the country, the South Korean automaker determined to suspend the assembly within the works. Kia Motors could not confirm its reopening date of the plant as there is an occasion of extending the suspension. The corporate explicit that the choice would depend upon the results of COVID-19 tests of the staff.
The affected works are found in Gwangmyeong, and it is where Kia is producing its Stinger sports automotive model. It is jointly manufacturing the Carnival minivan and its K9 flagship sedan. The plant encompasses a capability of aggregating 320,000 units of vehicles.
Second plant Closure in Recent Months
n any case, this can be the second time that Kia Motors has to pack up its Sohari plant. In May, its two production companies in Gwangmyeong and Gyeonggi were closed not due to coronavirus but because of component shortage that’s affected several automotive manufacturers worldwide. There weren’t enough airbag management units out there. This is the vehicle element that detects accidents and activates safety instrumentality throughout the mishap.
This was the company’s initial pack-up in Korea since the chip shortage started. This plant is principally manufacturing the Kia Motors‘ Stonic SUV. Other South Korean carmakers have conjointly halted their operations because of an equivalent reason for the dearth of components. Meanwhile, Kia Motors’ alternative native and overseas plants weren’t littered with the new closure announcement. Its factories within the US., India, China, Mexico, etc., are operational simply fine at the instant. Hopefully won’t be ordered to shut within the future due to chip shortage.
Kia has eight domestic plants in Chosen and seven overseas ones — 3 in China and one in the USA, Slovakia, India, and Mexico. Their overall capability is 3.84 million units. Hyundai Motor and its member Kia last week revealed tough second-quarter income on a base effect and hearty deals of their top-of-the-line SUVs. Within the initial six months, Hyundai and Kia, which was the world’s fifth-largest automaker by sales, oversubscribed a combined 3.47 million vehicles, up 25 percent from 2.77 million units within the same amount of last year. They aim to sell a complete 7.08 million autos this year, under the 7.2 million units they oversubscribed the previous year.
How Covid-19 Affected Indian Automobile Market
On Thursday, significant automakers like Hyundai, Kia, Maruti Suzuki, Toyota, Mahindra and Mahindra, Tata Motors, and Honda announced solid development in vehicle deals in June Covid-19. Maruti Suzuki India (MSI) announced total sales from 46,555 units to 1,47,368 units in June. Its domestic dispatches to dealers last month stood from 35,293 units to 1,30,348 units in strength. An easing of COVID-related restrictions helped the machine central dispatch additional units to dealerships.
The Rise
- The company’s mini cars, comprising S-Presso, and Alto rose from 4,760 units to 17,439 units in June in strength this year. Similarly, Swift, Celerio, Ignis, Baleno, and Dzire magnified to 68,849 units last month from 20,343 cars in strength.
- MSI’s vehicle dispatches and S-Cross, Vitara Brezza, and Ertiga stood from 6,355 to 28,172 units in May.
- Hyundai Motor India Limited (HMIL) reported total sales of from 30,703 units to 54,474 units in June. The automaker’s domestic dispatches to its dealerships increased rapidly from 25,001 units to 40,496 units last month.
- Tata Motors mentioned its vehicle sales in the domestic market stood from 15,181 to 24,110 units in June.
- Mahindra & Mahindra additionally reported a rise in vehicle sales in the domestic market from 8,004 units to 16,913 units in June.
- Toyota Kirloskar Motors (TKM) June sales stood from 707 units to 8,801 units this year. It had oversubscribed 3,866 units in June last year.
- MG Motor India additionally reported a rise in sales at 3,558 units in June. It had oversubscribed 1,016 units within the preceding month.
- Similarly, Kia India mentioned its dispatches to dealers in June stood from 11,050 units to 15,015 units in June, this year.
- Honda Cars India Ltd (HCIL) stated that their June sales were higher from 2,032 units to 4,767 units in 2021.
