Further production to resume at Volkswagen Slovakia

The car maker Volkswagen returned to production on April 20.

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Volkswagen Slovakia, a German car maker with three plants in the country, will continue to resume its full manufacturing capacity next week.

“From Monday, April 27, Volkswagen will start resuming production in a single-shift operation in another part of the Bratislava plant,” the firm’s spokesperson Lucia Kovarovič Makayová told the Hospodárske noviny daily.

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At the moment, Volkswagen is the only car plant in operation. The firm relaunched production on April 20 in all its three plants, including the biggest one in Bratislava.

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Measures stay in place

The plants in Martin, central Slovakia, and Stupava, western Slovakia, are gradually starting to manufacture again while taking into account demand from other concerns' plants.

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