On August 4, multiple sources reported that Mercedes-Benz South Africa has restarted production at its East London plant after a scheduled break from June 25 to the end of July 2025. Operations resumed on July 31, 2025, with a two-shift system.
The plant builds the C-Class sedan for both local and export markets.
The

On July 29, Toyota Argentina resumed production at its Zarate plant after an 11-day scheduled shutdown for maintenance and technological upgrades.
The downtime, aligned with the winter school holidays, involved improvements across all areas of the facility, including streets, drainage, cafeterias, and parking lots. T

On August 4, VinFast inaugurated its electric vehicle (EV) assembly plant at the SIPCOT Industrial Park in Thoothukudi, Tamil Nadu, India. This marks the company’s first manufacturing facility outside Vietnam and its third operational plant globally.
The 400-acre plant features advanced, automated production lines an

On August 1, multiple sources reported that the production of the Maserati GranTurismo and GranCabrio ended at the Stellantis Mirafiori plant. The final cars were celebrated with a traditional farewell photo. With Maserati moving back to its Modena site, around 250 employees left the plant between June and July 2025

On August 2, Toyota Motor Manufacturing France announced that most of its workforce will begin a three-week summer break at its Valenciennes plant.
Meanwhile several hundred employees and partner companies will remain on-site to carry out essential equipment and workshop upgrades. This work during the summer break i

On July 31, multiple sources reported that Toyota Automotive Manufacturing Turkey (TMMT) will suspend operations at its Sakarya factory from August 4 to 16, 2025, to carry out maintenance and overhauls on the facility’s production lines. This planned shutdown will affect production of the Corolla and C-HR models.
Toy

On July 31, EBRO announced that it had introduced a night shift at its Free Trade Zone facility with the addition of 75 new workers. The EBRO Factory expects to employ over 900 people by the end of summer.
The company is also integrating advanced robots into the M1 production line to enhance welding, assembly, and p

On July 29, multiple sources reported that the Sollers Alabuga plant and the Ulyanovsk Automobile Plant (UAZ) have gone on a corporate leave, which will last from July 28 to August 4, 2025.
During the corporate leave, the plants will carry out equipment maintenance and work on investment projects. The shipments of fi

On July 29, multiple sources reported that the Pavlovsk Bus Plant (PAZ), a leading Russian manufacturer of small and medium-sized buses, is on a scheduled corporate vacation from July 21 to August 3, 2025. The employees of the Pavlovsk Bus Plant were granted a scheduled, fully paid corporate vacations.
During this pe

On July 28, multiple sources reported that OOO Avtozavod St-Peterburg has gone on a three-week corporate leave, scheduled from July 28 to August 17, 2025.
The plant currently produces two XCITE brand models, the mid-size crossover X-Cross 7 and the full-size crossover X-Cross 8.
Based on multiple sources

On July 25, AvtoVAZ announced that it will observe its traditional corporate vacation from July 28 to August 17, 2025.
During this period, the company will carry out repairs, maintenance and modernization of its technological equipment and tooling, along with activities aimed at improving employee working conditions

On July 24, multiple sources reported that the Gorky Automobile Plant will switch to a four-day workweek starting in early August, immediately after employees return from their corporate vacation, due to the critical decline in the commercial transport market.
The company believes that moving to a four-day workweek

On July 25, KAMAZ announced that it will switch to a four-day workweek starting August 1, 2025, as part of broader efforts to maintain financial stability amid a declining Russian truck market.
The Russian truck market (over 14 tons) is expected to reach 40,000 to 60,000 units in 2025. Since more than 20,000 trucks

On July 24, the CFE-CGC union confirmed that Stellantis will shut down its Douvrin plant, France in 2026, following an announcement at the Works Council meeting.
As Stellantis shifts toward electric mobility, with the nearby ACC gigafactory focusing on battery production, the union stresses the urgent need for proper

On July 23, multiple sources reported that Stellantis Italy has stopped its production early at its Cassino plant because of low demand for the Alfa Romeo Stelvio and Giulia, and the Maserati Grecale.
The body and paint shops shut down on July 23, and the assembly line will close on July 24. The entire plant will go

On July 22, Karsan Otomotiv Sanayii ve Ticaret A.S. announced that a fire incident had occurred in a limited area of the prototype workshop at its facility in Hasanaga, Bursa, Turkiye. 
The incident was responded to quickly, and the fire was fully controlled and extinguished in a short time with the help of Karsan’s

On July 18, Ford Otosan announced a temporary suspension of operations at its Gölcük, Yeniköy, Eskişehir, and Craiova plants due to annual vacation and scheduled maintenance activities.
The operations at the Gölcük and Eskişehir plants will be paused from July 27 to August 10, 2025, and will resume on August 11, 2025

Production at the GM Oshawa Assembly Plant in Ontario, Canada, will be paused as the facility undergoes a scheduled three-week summer shutdown. Production is expected to resume on July 21 following the completion of routine maintenance activities, according to a GM spokesperson who said this is standard procedure acr

On July 17, multiple sources reported that Stellantis El Djazaïr Group announced that construction work on the CKD extension at its Tafraoui site in Oran, Algeria, has reached 85% completion.
The progress comes after equipment was installed in the bodywork and paint shops, which are the key steps for increasing local