GM Halting Production At Gravataí Plant For A Month

General Motors has just officially confirmed that it will halt production at the GM Gravataí plant in Brazil for a month.

The automaker’s Brazilian subsidiary will give collective vacations to all employees and will halt production for a month at the GM Gravataí plant, which will be inactive specifically from February 17^th to March 17^th. According to union sources, the stoppage of the industrial complex is scheduled to make technical adjustments to the production lines of the best-selling Chevy Onix.

“GM will grant collective vacations at the Gravataí plant between February 17^th and March 7^th. Meanwhile, there will be days off from the 10^th to the 14^th and on March 17^th,” said GM Brazil to local media. “The shutdowns are necessary to update and modernize processes in some areas of production,” the company finished.

The collective vacations and days off that will temporarily halt production at the GM Gravataí plant will be for the entire workforce of the Brazilian factory, which has a total workforce of about 5,000 direct employees on two work shifts. In fact, GM explicitly states that the measure includes both production shifts and also the auto parts suppliers that operate within the industrial complex.

Temporary production stoppages at the GM Gravataí plant have been common and much more frequent over the past two years. In the previous 12 months alone, the plant has halted assembly activities four different times for multiple reasons. The main causes vary and have been to adjust the inventory level of units to demand, to carry out technical work, and due to historic flooding that affected the region last year.

This time, the company has revealed fewer details regarding the temporary month-long production stoppage at the GM Gravataí plant, saying only that it will use the downtime to update processes in some areas. The factory is preparing to begin producing an updated variant of the second-generation Chevy Onix in both of its body styles, while also receiving an investment to manufacture a new model in 2026.