Mazda Japan stopped production due to a cut in the supply of parts from China

On May 2, 2022, Mazda announced to stop production at their Japanese factories in May of this year due to supply effects from China.

Mazda will suspend operations at both plants in Hiroshima and Hofu from May 9 to May 11, 2022, due to a shortage of parts from China-based suppliers, due to the spreading pandemic. in this country.

Assemble Mazda cars CX60 at Hofu factory in Japan

This is the second production stoppage since the beginning of this year at Mazda’s two main assembly plants, reducing production by 16.8% from the first quarter of 2022 compared to the same period last year for the automaker. (in March alone, there was a loss of 29% in output).

This has severely affected the carmaker’s sales, as its Japanese domestic sales fell 22.8% in March, and fell 13.9% in Q1 sales. .

In Southeast Asian countries, the scarcity of Mazda cars has increased rapidly, especially in countries that do not have CKD cars but only sell imported Mazda cars.

For example, in the Philippines, Bermaz Auto – Mazda’s exclusive distributor lamented the lack of cars delivered to customers. In March, they only sold 107 Mazda cars.

According to the division of labor, Japanese factories produce Mazda3, Mazda6 and MX-5

Most of the current CX-5 and CX-8 series originate from Malaysia and the BT-50 pickup line originates from Thailand.