herb St. Gobain of the Aviles Will produce windshield for the model within 2023 plans Tesla 3. will be 50,000 units, thus realizing the company’s goal of capturing “models with high added value”. However, this will be a year when production at the factory will fall below one million – as previously announced for 2022. front windowespecially expected 936,000.
The start of production of the Model 3 in China was a very important step for Tesla because it was able to avoid the high tariffs applied to vehicles produced on US soil thanks to this move. So the Saint-Gobain windowed car is offered at a more competitive price, which is really important considering China is the world’s largest electric car market. Saint-Gobain offers a range of high performance products to the automotive and marine market..
The group supplies pre-assembled windshields, side windows, rear windows, glass roofs and modules to the world’s leading automakers. Tempered, laminated, tinted or coated with layers with certain properties, Saint-Gobain Sekurit glass helps to reduce the energy consumption of vehicles and meets the needs of user safety and comfort.
The issue they haven’t decided yet at Saint-Gobain, furnace construction for the plant’s high value-added products. This project will increase the efficiency of the windshield department, but they warned that it is not up to those in charge of the Avilés plant, management reported to a representative of workers from the unions CCOO and SOMA-FITAG-UGT.
As for production, the management of the French multinational company had already been warned of the not-so-optimistic outlook of the Sekurit department responsible for windshield production. For the first time – at the expense of the end of the current fiscal year – production would fall below the reference figure for 2021 of 1,050,000 windshields.
market insecurity
This decline in glass figures for the auto industry, insecurity about new modelsThis leads the public to delay the purchase of vehicles and the world crisis of superconductors (sufficient supply of chips, no essential elements for car production).
Same way, Saint-Gobain includes the Avilés plant in its low carbon footprint glass production plan. The company has already carried out successful tests at the French factory, as this newspaper published. Arniche and claims to be working to expand the technology to Spain. The project maximizes the circularity of the glass by using more recycled and crushed glass (calcín) than usual in the production process. This has two advantages from an environmental point of view: it supports the reuse of glass (an excellent recyclable material) or, in another way, it reduces the consumption of raw materials (silica sand) – and saves energy, because the higher the demand, the lower the calorific value of the furnace.
Distrust of the workforce at the idea of negotiating voluntary departures
Workers’ representatives at the factory applauded the result of the group’s “pressure” and “unity”, forcing the company to withdraw the layoffs it had presented, following the “recent worker conflict” and “crash” the company had suffered. From the template. In a statement from CSI, “It appears that the company currently intends to implement plan B at Sekurit. Negotiate individually with all types of workers to reduce the workforce in different waysYeah.”
They continue this process.”Causes concern among staff and fostering a negative work environment”. Thus, they denounce that they are considering taking some kind of action “in the absolute absence of knowledge about these actions taken by the company”. “Our future is still on the wings and we should not be deceived at this point,” they emphasize.
After Saint-Gobain staff started work on 9 July twenty-day strike with a clear idea: the cause of the conflict – the plight of the automobile market – is not resolved (the company has reduced by almost a third of the total production volume of its Avilés and Arbós factories, Tarragona, between 2018 and 2021, meaning that more than five million pieces of glass for the automotive industry are no longer removed ) and therefore we need to start negotiating together how to face the crisis. These seem to be “next moves”, they suspect.