Honda’s Swindon plant is set to temporarily stop production it has emerged today. The company has released a statement saying that the plant, which already stopped production in February and March, is to suspend operations for 35 days in April and May.
Honda insists that there will be no redundancies among its 4,200 staff.
The Honda statement: “The global financial situation has continued to affect consumer confidence in the car market and as a result, Honda UK Manufacturing have announced to its workforce in Swindon, 35 non production days during the months of April and May with production restarting in June 2009.
“HUM reiterated their intention to safeguard employment for those associates who wish to stay with Honda at the plant. There are no plans for redundancies.”
HUM director David Hodgetts said: “The European car market is not showing any signs of recovery yet and therefore we have to reduce our production output further to better match the current level of market demand.
“All other car manufacturers are facing a similar situation and we will continue to take prompt and flexible counter measures to ensure that we can meet these challenges with this severe market situation.
“We intend to utilise the period of non-production days to further strengthen our competitiveness to take advantage of future market improvements.”
