Maruti Suzuki sees adverse impact on production in November

AHMEDABAD: Maruti Suzuki India Limited on Saturday stated that the company expects an adverse impact on vehicle production at its plants in Haryana and its parent company Suzuki Motor Corporation’s (SMC) plant in Gujarat in November.
The vehicle production at these plants is expected to get affected due to the semiconductor shortage.
“Owing to a supply constraint of electronic components due to the semiconductor shortage situation, the company is expecting an adverse impact on vehicle production in the month of November 2021 in both Haryana and its contract manufacturing company, Suzuki Motor Gujarat Private Limited (SMG) in Gujarat,” Maruti Suzuki said in a filing with BSE.
Terming the situation as quite dynamic, the country’s largest carmaker noted in the filing that as per current estimates the total vehicle production volume across both the locations could be around 85% of the normal rollout.
SMG Gujarat, which supplies vehicles exclusively to Maruti Suzuki, has an installed production capacity of 7.5 lakh units per annum.
Maruti Suzuki’s domestic sales slipped 54.9% to 68,815 units in September from 1,52,608 units in the same month last year due to shortage of electronic components.