Maruti Suzuki’s contract manufacturing company Suzuki Motor Gujarat (SMG) will shut production for 3 consecutive Saturdays in August and should also bring down working to only one shift due to the semiconductor shortage.

SMG, which is owned by Suzuki Motor Company, Japan, supplies fully built cars like Swift and Baleno to Maruti Suzuki India (MSIL) purchasable . this is often for the primary time that India’s largest carmaker has called out a production issue thanks to non-availability of chips.

“Owing to the semiconductor shortage situation, MSIL has been informed by its contract manufacturing company, SMG, that production are going to be partially impacted during this month. SMG will tentatively not perform production on the three Saturdays (7th, 14th and 21st August),” MSIL said in statement.

So far, the car market leader has been managing production flawlessly despite the crunch in semiconductor availability. Its peers like Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M), MG Motor and Ford India had to undertake production cuts thanks to the chip shortage.

“Some of the assembly lines may even see temporary reduction from 2-shift to 1-shift working (at SMG). because the situation is dynamic and unsure , the corporate will monitor and take a day-to-day decision on models, lines or shifts to optimize resources for max efficiency,” MSIL added.

Shortage of semiconductors has thus far severely impacted M&M quite other brands, especially for the Thar sport utility vehicle vehicle model. thanks to the chip shortage, which M&M sources from Bosch, Thar’s waiting period had shot up to nine months recently.

Tata Motors-controlled Jaguar Land Rover has predicted production loss of nearly 100000 units within the April-September period thanks to the chip shortage.