Michelin Vitoria will stop production in passenger car and rubber production on January 20 and 21

The plant Michelin in Vitoria is forced to schedule a new one stops production due to the lack of rubber will affect 674 people and it will mean halting production of 45,000 tires and 350 tons of rubber, as reported by UGT.

In concrete terms, shifts will be deactivated on the weekend of nine 20 and 21 of this month of January: seven in the Tourism Activities Department and two in the Rubber Production Workshop.

These shutdowns are in addition to the strikes announced last week, which will take place on January 13 and 14 – also a weekend. They will affect 913 employees and result in a production cut of 40,000 tires.

In this way, the stops at the Michelin plant in Vitoria, the largest that the multinational has in Spain with almost 3,500 employees, will suspend part of its activities for two weekends in January, with a global impact on 1,587 employees and a joint production reduction of 85,000 tires and 350 tons of rubber.

The four Michelin factories in Spain will deactivate shifts in January due to the lack of natural rubber, a basic raw material for tire production, resulting from the Red Sea crisis.

The problem lies in the lack of security for maritime transport in the Red Sea due to Houthi rebel attacks on ships passing through it, in response to the Israeli offensive on Palestine, which has forced suppliers to use other routes. , such as the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa, a much longer route that causes delays in the receipt of rubber.