Downtime of former Volkswagen plant in Kaluga extended indefinitely - trade union

KALUGA. Feb 28 (Interfax) - The former Volkswagen automobile plant in Kaluga will remain idle past February 29, the primary trade union organization of Volkswagen Group Rus LLC said.

"All employees will need to arrive at the plant on March 1, 2024 to familiarize themselves with the next period of downtime and how it will be organized," the union wrote on its official page on the Vkontakte social network.

The downtime does not have a specific end date.

Earlier, the trade union announced that the plant's downtime would last through February 29 of this year.

The governor of the Kaluga region, Vladislav Shapsha, said in early January that the car plant in Kaluga was expected to resume operations in the first half of this year.

The German concern Volkswagen sold its Russian assets to Art-Finance LLC, a division of the Avilon dealer holding, in May 2023 for 125 million euro.

The car plant, located in Kaluga's Grabtsevo Industrial Park, has a production capacity of 225,000 cars per year. Until the spring of 2022, the company produced Volkswagen Polo, Volkswagen Tiguan and Skoda Rapid models. The German concern also operated a gasoline engine plant in Kaluga with a capacity of 150,000 units per year.