Maruti Suzuki prepones plant maintenance schedule to June 6

Maruti Suzuki India Ltd has preponed its plant maintenance schedule by around three weeks. Earlier scheduled from June 27 to July 2, 2016 both plants of the automaker (in Gurgaon and Manesar) will now remain closed from June 6 to June 11, 2016 for the company’s bi-annual maintenance drives.

The company has officially commented that this advancement of maintenance schedule will help Maruti Suzuki to utilize the time window for arranging supply of components, especially AC compressors. The company's manufacturing facilities are currently facing shortage of supply of AC compressor units, after a massive fire broke out at M/s Subros Ltd., which is Maruti's chief vendor of compressors. This fire has already resulted in a production loss of four shifts at both Maruti Suzuki factories.

The company expects to get better production volumes once the plant maintenance and component supply issues are taken care of.