AlwaysFree: Mazda To Resume Two-Shift Car Output Next Month

To gradually restore output from Covid-19 lows, Japan’s Mazda is planning to restart two-shift production at all of its four domestic assembly plants in July.

Mazda has decided to resume two-shift production on 1 July at two assembly plants in Hiroshima and one at Yamaguchi prefecture's Hofu, as well as on 27 July at another plant in Hofu. In response to reduced new car sales, the company is continuing single-shift production at the four plants throughout June.

The planned resumption of two-shift production is expected to restore the firm's domestic output to around 80 percent of year-earlier levels in July after output plunged to just 40 percent of year-earlier levels in June.

Mazda produced 84,289 and 88,989 vehicles respectively in June and July last year. Its domestic output in April fell by 86 percent from a year earlier to 11,706 units. While taking into consideration the possibility of a new wave of Covid-19 infections and related impacts in the future, Mazda plans to cautiously and flexibly adjust vehicle output operations to demand shifts.

Japanese auto producers are maintaining output cuts in July. However, there are signs of an output recovery after the Covid-19 pandemic took its biggest toll on domestic vehicle output during April-June. 

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