When foreign car manufacturers return to Russia
- December 29, 2022
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After an almost complete shutdown since March 2022, the Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Rus (XMMR) plant in St. Petersburg began to show signs of production life. But does this
After an almost complete shutdown since March 2022, the Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Rus (XMMR) plant in St. Petersburg began to show signs of production life. But does this mean that the Koreans decided to stay in Russia? And if so, when to wait for the return of other “lost” automakers? The answers to these and other questions are contained in the material of the AvtoVzglyad portal.
Several respected media immediately spread information that the HMMR plant in St. Petersburg quietly returned to work. The reports all cite “unnamed sources”. But this is normal in circumstances when Hyundai’s official representative office in Russia immediately, in the spring, took a principled position not to contact the press at all. Somehow, according to the same sources, the company resumed stamping body parts, welding them and painting finished Hyundai Solaris bodies. The latter are destined for shipment to the Hyundai Trans Kazakhstan plant in Alma-Ata.
It is also reported that Hyundai is considering restarting the production and shipment of Hyundai Creta bodies to the Kazakhs. If anyone does not know, a whole “bouquet” of Hyundai models is assembled in the republic: Solaris (under the name Accent), Creta, Tucson, Santa Fe, Elantra, Sonata and even Palisade. Moreover, the production of Creta and Accent was halted this spring due to the loss of the supply of parts from Russia. Now, apparently, everything will return to normal there.
However, the launch of stamping, welding and painting lines at the Hyundai plant in St. Petersburg was almost completely secret. Also against the background of reports from early December, when it became known about plans to reduce the company’s workforce in January 2023. What does this tell us?
First of all, that the Koreans will not give up their previously chosen policy on the domestic market. And it is simply stated: “we will sit through the Russian trash without anyone noticing.” Like, if we don’t attract the attention of the “big American brother”, then when everything settles down here, we will immediately “rise from the ashes”. Unlike Renault-Nissan, Toyota, Mazda and all sorts of “Germans” who have disappeared from us. But, probably, this can also be taken as a hint: the emboldened Koreans brought the factory back to life, and enterprises are not restarted when they “go out”.
Perhaps their top management thinks broader and further than its Japanese-European competitors, expecting the completion of the current phase of the Russian-Ukrainian “cabal” in a much shorter time than the politicians of Europe, the United States and Russia loudly proclaim. Calm so far, but analysts’ voices are already breaking through, predicting the end of the armed phase of the conflict around the end of summer and early fall of 2023. They say Ukraine will run out of steam in all respects , and that the natives and politicians of the collective West will get tired of providing financial leverage to “non-brothers” who still cannot show the result desired of them – the defeat of Russia. Yes, and without our cheap natural resources, Europe is getting tired of life.
In general, there is some hope that a normal car industry will (perhaps) return to Russia in the foreseeable future. At least part of his “side” …
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Several respected media immediately spread information that the HMMR plant in St. Petersburg quietly returned to work. The reports all cite “unnamed sources”. But this is normal in circumstances when Hyundai’s official representative office in Russia immediately, in the spring, took a principled position not to contact the press at all. Somehow, according to the same sources, the company resumed stamping body parts, welding them and painting finished Hyundai Solaris bodies. The latter are destined for shipment to the Hyundai Trans Kazakhstan plant in Alma-Ata.
It is also reported that Hyundai is considering restarting the production and shipment of Hyundai Creta bodies to the Kazakhs. If anyone does not know, a whole “bouquet” of Hyundai models is assembled in the republic: Solaris (under the name Accent), Creta, Tucson, Santa Fe, Elantra, Sonata and even Palisade. Moreover, the production of Creta and Accent was halted this spring due to the loss of the supply of parts from Russia. Now, apparently, everything will return to normal there.
However, the launch of stamping, welding and painting lines at the Hyundai plant in St. Petersburg was almost completely secret. Also against the background of reports from early December, when it became known about plans to reduce the company’s workforce in January 2023. What does this tell us?
First of all, that the Koreans will not give up their previously chosen policy on the domestic market. And it is simply stated: “we will sit through the Russian trash without anyone noticing.” Like, if we don’t attract the attention of the “big American brother”, then when everything settles down here, we will immediately “rise from the ashes”. Unlike Renault-Nissan, Toyota, Mazda and all sorts of “Germans” who have disappeared from us. But, probably, this can also be taken as a hint: the emboldened Koreans brought the factory back to life, and enterprises are not restarted when they “go out”.
Perhaps their top management thinks broader and further than its Japanese-European competitors, and expects the completion of the current phase of the Russian-Ukrainian “cabal” in a much shorter time than the politicians of Europe, the US and Russia loudly proclaim. Calm so far, but analysts’ voices are already breaking through, predicting the end of the armed phase of the conflict around the end of summer or early fall of 2023. They say Ukraine will run out of steam by all accounts , and that the natives and politicians of the collective West will grow tired of providing financial leverage to “non-brothers” who still cannot show the result desired of them – the defeat of Russia. Yes, and without our cheap natural resources, Europe is getting tired of life.
In general, there is some hope that a normal car industry will (perhaps) return to Russia in the foreseeable future. At least part of his “side” …
Source: Avto Vzglyad
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