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Car industry giants to shut down in Hungary – huge economic problems on the horizon?
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A significant part of the Hungarian GDP comes from automotive giants like Audi, Opel, Suzuki and Mercedes. Now, they all announced that they would stop production for weeks which can cause serious harm to the Hungarian economy and the budget of the country.
According to totalcar.hu, Opel announced yesterday that they would halt production at its plant in Szentgotthárd from next Monday because of the coronavirus epidemic. Zoltán Kaszás, communications leader of the company, added that they did everything in the last few weeks to prevent an outbreak of the epidemic in their plant. For example, they introduced a stricter tidying system, prescribed rigorous hygiene rules, tried to minimise contacts between their workers and checked the temperature of the drivers coming to the factory. Furthermore, they reduced the number of business trips and welcomed fewer visitors.
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He told that they were successful in implementing the measures mentioned above since
there were no infections among the workers of the plant.
However, now they do not have any other choice but to halt production in the plant.
Totalcar wrote before that from January 9 this factory made the 1.2L petrol PSA engines for many types of Peugeot, Citroen and Opel and the relevant investments cost 12.5 billion HUF for the owners.