Major carmaker closes its manufacturing in the UK after BrexitPhoto: news.vse42.ru
The corresponding decision was made at the Honda Motor Corp
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In the UK, will close factories by the Japanese automaker Honda Motor Corp., after the country out of the EU. About it reports “Interfax”.
“We had to take the difficult decision to ask our employees how you can prepare your production network for the future… It was not an easy decision, and we are very sorry to announce this sad news to our people”, – said the head of the company division responsible for the European direction, Katsushi, Inoue.
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The plant is located in the British town of Swindon, where they work 3.5 thousand people.
The company also said they were going to focus only on those areas where it can have high production volumes. The termination of the operation of the plant can be a severe blow to the automotive sector in the UK.
As previously reported by the Focus:
- Rumors that Honda is going to close its factory in the UK came after the company announced a temporary shutdown of businesses due to Brexit.
- British Ministers demanded Mei to exclude the possibility of uncontrolled exit from the EU due to the alarming statements of the companies.
- In addition, the foreign Minister of Ireland did not rule out that the timing of Brexit may be extended until the end of June.