General Motors is set to shut down its Lansing Grand River Assembly plant in Michigan for the remainder of the month as the global chip shortage continues to affect the automaker’s production output.
GM will pause production at the Lansing Grand River Assembly plant on Monday, the automaker confirmed this week, and will not bring the plant back online until at least the end of the month. The Lansing Grand River facility builds the Chevy Camaro sports car, along with the Cadillac CT4 and CT5 sedans.
“We continue to work closely with our supply base to find solutions for our suppliers’ semiconductor requirements and to mitigate impact on GM,” spokesman David Barnas told The Detroit News. “Our intent is to make up as much production lost at these plants as possible.”
A global supply shortage of semiconductor chips rocked the auto industry in recent months, leading to production shutdowns for the Detroit Big Three and many of their foreign rivals. GM has been forced to shut down three of its North American plants due to the ongoing shortage, though it remains focused on maintaining a strong supply of chips to keep producing its full-size trucks and SUVs, which are the bread and butter of its business.
“GM continues to leverage every available semiconductor to build and ship our most popular and in-demand products, including full-size trucks and SUVs for our customers,” the automaker said in a prepared statement addressing the chip shortage. “GM has not taken downtime or reduced shifts at any of its truck plants due to the shortage. We continue to work closely with our supply base to find solutions for our suppliers’ semiconductor requirements and to mitigate impacts on GM.”
Chip manufacturers, meanwhile, are working overtime to try and keep up with increased demand. An uptick in consumer electronics sales due to the COVID-19 pandemic, along with various production-related setbacks, has put the industry in a supply drought that is proving difficult to climb out of whilst demand remains high.
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Well as long as production resumes sometime this year. A 2022 camaro ZL1 is what I am aiming for before the year is over. The first sentence had me really worried for a few seconds!
Has GM provided any details about Camaro production backlog? Are they still working on orders placed in 2020? I placed an order on March 4th and am wondering now if I will even see my car this year.
just think if these chips were assembled in the Untied States , there would be no storage
I ordered my zl1 19 January and it just missed build date hope to see car by end of April
I ordered my zl1 Jan 19 21 hope I will see it by end of April
I ordered my 2021 camaro 2ss 1LE in January. I really hope I get to see it soon. This is my dream car! Please GM, pick back up on producing these awesome sports cars!
If someone is replying to these, do we have a estimated date yet when GM will resume production for the camaro? It’s April 7.
Gm needs to give us a start up date on the Camaro, I ordered my zl1 Jan 19th
I saw on the Reuters .com today Camaro plant will open April 26 wow good news
I am so happy and excited that the auto industry stalled.i love it! There’s already way too many stupid human contraptions clogging up our beautiful planet as it is but gm can never pump out enough of the stupid things! The bigwigs don’t care what’s being done to mother nature,and the way people drive anymore.job or no job I’m loving this and even got time off from my dictator bosses who work me overtime relentlessly.new world cars have no class on top of it! I hope this goes on forever,amen
how about an idea if American workers were put back to work and made produced the shorted chips instead of having them made in china .. what a concept ,but president wouldn’t understand .
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