Audi plant in Brussels closes forever

On February 28, 2025, the last car will go off the assembly line, and about three thousand employees will go home. Such a plan was hastily agreed in early January as part of a plan to reduce expenses against the background of falling profit. Audi also hopes to save up to a billion euros per year, having cut out the expenses on staff and materials, the publication reports [Handelsblatt](https://www.handelsblatt.com/unternehmen/industrie/autobauer-audi-cef-beim-personal-milliarden-euro-einsparen/100109576.html).

At the end of February, the production of Audi Q8 E-Tron and Q8 Sportback E-Tron in Brussels will end, after which the plant will be closed. Its workers will be fired by agreement of the parties, which did not come to immediately: the company and trade unions could not agree on the amount of the weekend, which is why the conveyor stopped. Earlier it was expected that the Brussels platform would work until at least 2027 and will assemble another model-the Q4 E-Tron crossover, which is produced in Zvikkau.

However, sales of electric cars turned out to be worse than forecasts, and the company requires large investments. Logistics and production are expensive, since body parts have to be carried from other sites, and it is impossible to expand the plant – it is clamped between residential buildings and railway.

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Closing the plant in Brussels is part of the Audi plan to reduce expenses. Until 2030, the company also wants to cut the costs of materials for eight billion euros. In such a step, falling sales are pushed by it, in 2024 they sank around the world by almost 12 percent, and in her native Germany – by 21.3 percent.

In Volkswagen Group, the negative trend is explained by the “difficult economic conditions, a tense market environment and limited access to details”.

Audi, which is going to save on materials, is now criticized for not premium finishing enough. The manufacturer admits that “in the past, Audi was undoubtedly better in terms of quality” and promises to conduct “work on errors”.

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