AvtoVAZ started the process of transferring equipment from the Lada Izhevsk plant to the main plant in Tolyatti, statement Insiders from the Avtograd news community on the VKontakte social network.
“Representatives of the body production, welding production and other services of AvtoVAZ are on the territory of the Izhevsk Automobile Plant to disassemble the necessary lines and complexes, and then send them to the VAZ,” the message states.
It is assumed that the official transfer of assembly of Vesta cars from Izhevsk to Tolyatti will be announced before August 10 this year.
AvtoVAZ management will decide beforehand what exactly will be produced at the Lada Izhevsk site by the end of 2022. said President of Udmurtia Alexander Brechalov in an interview with Interfax. According to him, the domestic manufacturer plans to keep the plant in Izhevsk.
“Yes, there are objective difficulties with import substitution now, but I think a decision will be made before the end of the year on how to load our site and what to produce,” Brechalov said in June. Said.
At the Izhevsk Automobile Plant, cars of the Lada Vesta family were produced using full-time technology. In September last year, the 600,000th car rolled off the assembly line.
Former AvtoVAZ plans To send a limited number of Lada Vesta NG cars to dealers at the end of July.