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General => IHADAV8 Playground => Topic started by: daveismissing on April 19 2012, 01:25:20 PM

Title: Why the factory may not build your new car on time
Post by: daveismissing on April 19 2012, 01:25:20 PM

..... Evonik Industries' plant in Germany was responsible for a good chunk of the world's supply - one estimate put it between a quarter and a half......


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-17769466 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-17769466)

Title: Re: Why the factory may not build your new car on time
Post by: TexasT on April 22 2012, 01:14:33 PM

Glad I'm not into buying new vehicles. Too bad that fire threw a "spanner" into the works. Sux to put all the proverbial eggs in one basket. Beancounters obviously didn't have a contingency plan.

Title: Re: Why the factory may not build your new car on time
Post by: SuperSix on April 23 2012, 10:06:22 AM

same thing happened in the hard drive industry late last year when Thailand flooded.

Key component suppliers were crippled - tripled storage pricing, it's still not recovered.

So much for globalization.  :rolleyes;