As TASS reports with reference to the primary trade union organization of the enterprise, the assembly line of the ex-Volkswagen plant in the Grabtsevo industrial park near Kaluga will be restarted on August 1, 2024. After the German concern left Russia, the car plant came under the control of the AGR Automotive Group (AGR LLC) and has remained idle until now. It is still unknown what cars it will produce after the relaunch.
The dates for the resumption of work at the Kaluga plant were postponed several times. Thus, at the beginning of summer, the governor of the Kaluga region, Vladislav Shapsha, stated that the site would resume work in June, but according to the trade union, this will happen only in August. “Today a plant-wide meeting was held, at which the plant management announced the long-awaited restart of production from August 1, 2024. At the first stage, more than 500 workers will be involved. We will have to work in three shifts at once,” says the organization’s publication posted on its page on the VKontakte social network.
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Earlier, there was information that AGR was negotiating with several potential industrial partners, but it was not specified which ones. It is logical to assume that, as in the case of other already restarted Russian plants, help will come from China.
Most likely, large-unit assembly without welding and painting of bodies will be organized at the former Volkswagen plant. However, DKD production is also possible, in which a ready-made car from a partner plant is partially disassembled and delivered to the Russian enterprise.
The Volkswagen plant has been operating since 2007. Before production stopped in 2022, Volkswagen Polo, Tiguan and Skoda Rapid were produced there. The enterprise is designed for volumes of up to 225 thousand cars per year.
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