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With more than one somewhat recent reports saying that Mercedes-Benz is having trouble with the supply of CLA models after a huge wave of demand from all over the world, news that the Hungarian plant where it is manufactured was completely stopped today can only mean bad things.
Apparently, the Mercedes-Benz factory in Kecskemet suspended production and evacuated its workers earlier today after a bomb threat was received from an anonymous caller.
“In close cooperation with the respective authorities, all staff have been evacuated as a matter of precaution,” a Daimler AG spokesman told Automotive News about the matter. “At present, police experts are on site to conduct investigations.”
At least until this hour, no actual bomb has been found on site and the threat was most definitely made by either a moronic person with nothing better to do or a disgruntled former employee of the Kecskemet plant.
As some of you know, the global demand for the Mercedes-Benz CLA has been so great that it forced the Stuttgart car manufacturer to add a third production shift at the Hungarian factory as of March, where the four-door coupe is being built alongside the B-Class.
Founded back in 2008, the Mercedes-Benz plant in Kecskemet had 3,358 employees as of December 2013 and last year there were over 109,000 cars manufactured at the site. We will keep you posted as soon as we find other news about the situation.
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“In close cooperation with the respective authorities, all staff have been evacuated as a matter of precaution,” a Daimler AG spokesman told Automotive News about the matter. “At present, police experts are on site to conduct investigations.”
At least until this hour, no actual bomb has been found on site and the threat was most definitely made by either a moronic person with nothing better to do or a disgruntled former employee of the Kecskemet plant.
As some of you know, the global demand for the Mercedes-Benz CLA has been so great that it forced the Stuttgart car manufacturer to add a third production shift at the Hungarian factory as of March, where the four-door coupe is being built alongside the B-Class.
Founded back in 2008, the Mercedes-Benz plant in Kecskemet had 3,358 employees as of December 2013 and last year there were over 109,000 cars manufactured at the site. We will keep you posted as soon as we find other news about the situation.
Story via Automotive News
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