Nissan plans large -scale abbreviations for American factories

According to Yomiuri Shimbun, the Japanese company is going to dismiss about two thousand people working at enterprises in the United States, and cut the volumes of car production by 25 percent. However, while the adjustments of production and state have not been approved, the representative of Nissan said Automotive News.

Nissan plans to reduce from one and a half to two thousand people at his factories in Canton, Mississippi, and in Smirna, Tennessee. This is reported by insiders in Japan. In Mississippi, Nissan produces Altima and Frontier pickup, Pathfinder, Murano, Rogue and Infiniti QX60. Now about a million cars a year are leaving the conveyors of both factories, but soon the volume will be cut by a quarter.

This is not the first reductions in recent years. Last year, Nissan fired about 500 workers in the United States. In addition, the manufacturer canceled investments of $ 500 million in a factory in a canton, faced with a fall in demand for electric cars. Already in 2025, they were going to start the assembly of five new models there, but the start was moved to 2028.

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Last year, sales in the United States, one of the most important markets for Nissan, increased by almost four percent. However, the share of the company has fallen to 5.8 percent, declining by 2.1 percent over the past five years.

In December, Nissan and Honda announced the merger plans. The latter demanded a break between Nissan and Renault, but it will not be easy to redeem the “Nissan” shares. His net profit fell by 94 percent, so he is forced to reduce 20 percent of production capacities and dismiss nine thousand employees around the world.

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