Rumors grow about the end of Nissan’s production in Argentina

While the establishment belongs to the French company, where Logan, Sandero and Stepway models produce for a few years, the manufacturing engine was focused on the investment made by Nissan to mount the Frontier production line – within the framework of the World Alliance that they had at that time, but that today was dissolved – and manufacture “at the request” units “twins: from Alaskan.

Bad perfomance in sales and exports From the Japanese model he led to that production line to work with permanent stops during the last two years. For a few weeks the rumors were growing.

Last Thursday, the Arodarpost specialized site published that There were three scenarios for Nissan Fabrile departure in Argentina, which contemplated deadlines from this year to 2027.

The idea that is handled is to stop manufacturing the Frontier in Argentina and that it begins to import from Mexico.

In this way, the automaker would be as a import brand, with the offer of products that today arrive from different markets, plus the Mexican frontier. On Friday, new information arose that confirms the aforementioned and gives a possible resolution date.

Delegates of SMATA They toured the production line, where they held assemblies with the operators to inform him of the situation, according to that portal.

Sources that participated in these meeting reported that the guild announced that on December 31 of this year the contract that links the two companies will be ended and will mark the lifting of the production of the pickups.

Even the unionists explained that the intention of the Japanese brand was to finish the production before, but that the Smata managed to postpone the decision.

Other sources explained that Nissan had to warn Renault the decision to stop producing six months in advance, beyond the date of the contract for longer.

The work environment is tense inside the plant. There are suspended personnel and others who were working in a shift in maintenance tasks. The guild decided on Friday to initiate a measure of force with quite collaboration, so production is paralyzed.

It is also said that the activity during February and March will be restricted to a program of one week of activity and two stops, with rotating suspensions of personnel.

There is discomfort among effective workers because many are suspended, while there are hired who are working and charging the full salary. The latter, as commented in Santa Isabel, would have entered the company through the union and, some would be relatives of the delegates.

In recent times, the personnel affected by production through voluntary retirements or early retirements were reduced.

The Retirement Program is still open, but it is commented that the Human Resources Department will make a new proposal in the next few days. In the production line there are about 180 operators, of which about 120 are suspended.

To these must be added another number of automaker workers who are assigned to the autopartist Maxion Montichwhich produces chassis for trucks, and is installed on the same property.

This company would run the same fate as Nissan’s industrial part. Apparently, it has enough stock produced from chassis, so the activity would also be trimmed.

The concrete thing is that it is the first time that the end of the end of Nissan’s production in Argentina and it is the guild himself who communicates it. “What the delegates told us is that at the end of the year the trucks are stopped,” He pointed to this media a participant of those assemblies. The delegates did not mention the possibility that production moves to another plant.

Last Thursday, before the versions of a manufacturing survey. Nissan Argentina pointed out the following: “Nissan regularly studies possible opportunities to optimize its manufacturing operations. We have not announced any change in our production plans in Argentina.”