Hyundai to halt US plant for three weeks on chip shortage, maintenance

Hyundai Motor, South Korea’s biggest carmaker by sales, said on Monday it will suspend its US plant for three weeks due to lack of semiconductors and routine maintenance.

Hyundai Motor will halt the Alabama plant for one week from June 14 on a chip shortage and two weeks from June 16 to July 11 for the plant’s maintenance work, a company spokesman said by phone.

In recent weeks, chip parts shortages continue to affect production of carmakers and other manufacturers in the United States and other markets, reports Yonhap news agency.

Last month, Hyundai halted its Indian plant for five days starting May 25, as two workers in the Tamil Nadu plant were infected with COVID-19 and several workers staged a sit-in at the plant on May 24 amid rising virus fears among workers.