If car production was affected by the coronavirus pandemic last year, this year the problem is the lack of production parts, especially chips. Škoda Auto is also struggling with this. – Škoda Auto’s sales in the first half of the year rose by 20.8 percent year on year to 515,300 vehicles. In June alone, however, … Read more
One of the potential investors in the construction of a battery factory is the Volkswagen Group. The second is unknown. – The Czech government is negotiating with two potential investors, including the Volkswagen Group, to build a factory for batteries for electric cars in the Czech Republic. It is ready to support the project with … Read more
The most important Octavia model returned to the key M13 production line in Mladá Boleslav last week. The carmaker had to stop its production for a few days two weeks ago due to a lack of semiconductor chips. Thus, only the Enyaq electric model was temporarily produced on the line. It was the first time … Read more
Photo: wingsherald.com Boeing will restrict production of Dreamliners in order to improve them – – Production of Dreamliner aircraft will be temporarily limited, but will return to the previous level after revision. Boeing has identified the need to rework its 787 Dreamliner aircraft that are awaiting delivery to customers – this will take some time. … Read more
Harvested coffee beans in Laos – – Coffee consumption this year will exceed production for the first time since 2017, according to the US Department of Agriculture. World prices for Arabica coffee in June reached their highest in five years. This could affect end-users, reports The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday, July 12th. Thus, in … Read more
The newly established Tatra Defense Slovakia will operate in Trenčín, on the premises of the Ministry of Defense, where the state military-repair plant was historically located. – In recent years, Tatra has focused on various specialties tailored to a specific clientele, which traditionally also includes the armed forces. And it is in this area that … Read more
July 3, 2021 at 9:00 a.m. Theater Krefeld and Mönchengladbach : Jazz and opera are not a contradiction in terms – Boshana Milkov is a mezzo-soprano and member of the Niederrhein Opera Studio at Theater Krefeld and Mönchengladbach. Foto: Nadia Sarycheva – – Krefeld The talented mezzo-soprano Boshana Milkov is part of the Niederrhein Opera … Read more
“This is the first time that only a purely electric car has been produced on the assembly line at Škoda Auto,” the trade unionists write in Thursday’s issue of the company weekly Škodovácký odborář. Behind the sentence that gives the impression of success, there is in fact a statement of the deep crisis in which … Read more
– THAT’S ON AT HOCHTIEF: Domestic business only plays a minor role for Hochtief. Around 94 percent of the Group’s sales of almost 24 billion euros are generated outside of Europe, above all in Australia and the USA. And it actually went well in day-to-day business until the outbreak of the Corona crisis. The fact … Read more
“Thousands of jobs will need to be filled, but the Czechia can only offer top experts. Human resources from the Czech Republic alone would not be enough for a single gigafactory, “points out Zdeněk Petzl, Executive Director of the Automotive Industry Association. Experts who could be involved in the production of batteries are now largely … Read more