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Car factories fall like ripe apples one after the other into the hands of our government. Now it’s the turn of the Nissan company in St. Petersburg. Portal
There have been two sources of exciting news in the Russian auto industry in recent months. This, of course, is the head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade, Denis Manturov, and the president of AvtoVAZ, Maxim Sokolov. Let’s start with the first. A few days ago Mr. Minister “came running up extremely excited and shocked us with the message”. The fate of the former Nissan factory, with which it is not clear what happened in the past six months, has been finally decided. Now the assets are owned by FSUE NAMI and it will be managed by AVTOVAZ, which should start production there as early as 2023.
The layout is odd to say the least. The state-owned company that closed the deal with the Japanese assumes all financial risks. Because it is she who, despite purchasing the property of Nissan Manufacturing Rus for only 1 euro, owns this property, which is worth hundreds of millions of times more.
But for some reason it will not be managed by the US at all, but by a completely different company – AVTOVAZ, which, by the way, is also owned by the state-owned company – Rostec Corporation. One can only guess why such an indirect plan was involved. Perhaps the officials wanted to lay the straws for themselves in the event of a resounding failure of the project?
In principle, there is every reason to fear such an unpleasant result. Besides optimistic statements about the start of production next year, there are no details. The people of Togliatti keep their plans secret, if they exist. Therefore, no one knows what cars will be produced at the former Nissan plant and in what volumes.
Now let’s listen to the second high-ranking informant, Maxim Yuryevich Sokolov – not a well-known Russian journalist with a luxurious beard, but his full namesake, the head of AVTOVAZ. He stated rather evasively that his company was negotiating a possible SKD assembly of something foreign at the St. Petersburg plant. Automotive expert Sergey Burgazliev gives his prediction about possible partners:
– The most likely scenario is the attraction to this site or a brand from China, or, more likely, the production under the LADA brand of crossovers similar to the Nissan Qashqai and Nissan X-Trail, again from Chinese car kits (by analogy with the products of the Moskvich plant), since AvtoVAZ itself does not have such models and cannot develop them itself …
In principle it is acceptable. However, another car expert, Sergey Aslanyan, talks about the main obstacle on the way to such a future:
– All foreign car factories in Russia were created according to a single scenario. These are final assembly shops… And none of these sites are designed for anyone else’s. The Ford factory can only assemble Fords, the VW factory can only assemble VWs, the Nissan factory can only assemble Nissans…
So, with the departure of the Japanese from St. Petersburg, be it temporary or final, the further operation of the enterprise is impossible: for this there is and will not be a steady flow of components.
The assurances that Nissan employees gave before fleeing Russia that the plant will remain operational, that key competencies and the production cycle will remain, that a staff of 2,000 will remain, are worth nothing. And the unbearable worries about the fulfillment of foreigners’ promises will now fall on the shoulders of the domestic company.
AvtoVAZ actually got like chickens in cabbage soup. In general, there is no one to entrust car production in our country. So the people of Togliatti have to take on the rap for everyone. And they have their own problems through the roof – until they manage to load even their own Izhevsk plant with work, for which wild projects are being conceived for the production of electric Largus in quantities that are clearly not in demand on the market. And then a Nissan fell on their head. It turns out that the St. Petersburg venture has only three ways, and none of them inspire optimism.
The first is to throw out expensive Japanese equipment and replace it with Chinese equipment: inferior in quality, but at least working. The second is to mothball the production in hopes of a speedy return of the former owners and watch it become more and more covered in dust, obsolete and lose value every month. The third is to give it up and write it off as illiquid.
This is about iron. And people still have to say goodbye. As the hero of Boris Chirkov said in the old movie “Chapaev”: “They are coming – urya, urya! Here is your urya. We waited…”
There have been two sources of exciting news in the Russian auto industry in recent months. This, of course, is the head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade, Denis Manturov, and the president of AvtoVAZ, Maxim Sokolov. Let’s start with the first. A few days ago Mr. Minister “came running up extremely excited and shocked us with the message”. The fate of the former Nissan factory, with which it is not clear what happened in the past six months, has been finally decided. Now the assets are owned by FSUE NAMI and it will be managed by AVTOVAZ, which should start production there as early as 2023.
The layout is odd to say the least. The state-owned company that closed the deal with the Japanese assumes all financial risks. Because it is she who, despite purchasing the property of Nissan Manufacturing Rus for only 1 euro, owns this property, which is worth hundreds of millions of times more.
But for some reason it will not be managed by the US at all, but by a completely different company – AVTOVAZ, which, by the way, is also owned by the state-owned company – Rostec Corporation. One can only guess why such an indirect plan was involved. Perhaps the officials wanted to lay the straws for themselves in the event of a resounding failure of the project?
In principle, there is every reason to fear such an unpleasant result. Besides optimistic statements about the start of production next year, there are no details. The people of Togliatti keep their plans secret, if they exist. Therefore, no one knows what cars will be produced at the former Nissan plant and in what volumes.
Now let’s listen to the second high-ranking informant, Maxim Yuryevich Sokolov – not a well-known Russian journalist with a luxurious beard, but his full namesake, the head of AVTOVAZ. He stated rather evasively that his company was negotiating a possible SKD assembly of something foreign at the St. Petersburg factory. Automotive expert Sergey Burgazliev gives his prediction about possible partners:
– The most likely scenario is the attraction to this site or a brand from China, or, more likely, the production under the LADA brand of crossovers similar to the Nissan Qashqai and Nissan X-Trail, again from Chinese car kits (by analogy with the products of the Moskvich plant), since AvtoVAZ itself does not have such models and cannot develop them itself …
In principle it is acceptable. However, another car expert, Sergey Aslanyan, talks about the main obstacle on the way to such a future:
– All foreign car factories in Russia were created according to a single scenario. These are final assembly shops… And none of these sites are designed for anyone else’s. The Ford factory can only assemble Fords, the VW factory can only assemble VWs, the Nissan factory can only assemble Nissans…
So, with the departure of the Japanese from St. Petersburg, be it temporary or permanent, the further operation of the enterprise is impossible: for this there is and will not be a steady flow of components.
The assurances that Nissan employees gave before fleeing Russia that the plant will remain operational, that key competencies and the production cycle will remain, that a staff of 2,000 will remain, are worth nothing. And the unbearable worries about the fulfillment of foreigners’ promises will now fall on the shoulders of the domestic company.
AvtoVAZ actually got like chickens in cabbage soup. In general, there is no one to entrust car production in our country. So the people of Togliatti have to take on the rap for everyone. And they have their own problems through the roof – until they manage to load even their own Izhevsk plant with work, for which wild projects are being conceived for the production of electric Largus in quantities that are clearly not in demand on the market. And then a Nissan fell on their head. It turns out that the St. Petersburg venture has only three ways, and none of them inspire optimism.
The first is to throw out expensive Japanese equipment and replace it with Chinese equipment: worse in quality, but at least working. The second is to mothball the production in hopes of a speedy return of the former owners and watch it become more and more covered in dust, obsolete and lose value every month. The third is to give it up and write it off as illiquid.
This is about iron. And people still have to say goodbye. As the hero of Boris Chirkov said in the old movie “Chapaev”: “They are coming – urya, urya! Here is your urya. We waited…”
Source: Avto Vzglyad
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