Volkswagen brand suspends production on Thursday due to corona crisis

• Plants operated by Volkswagen Passenger Cars brand suspend production for two weeks

• Plants of Volkswagen Group Components also affected

• Initially, production facilities in Wolfsburg, Emden, Dresden, Osnabrück, Zwickau, Bratislava (Slovakia), Pamplona (Spain) and Palmela (Portugal) are affected, as well as the Components plants at Brunswick, Chemnitz, Hanover, Kassel, Salzgitter and SITECH

• Brand is responding above all to the accelerated rate of infection by coronavirus, the resulting interruption in supply chains and the rapid decline in demand on the automotive markets

• Company implements additional measures to protect employees

Full press release (ENG)