Autostat – PSMA Rus factory, based in Kaluga, switches to four-days-a-week working scheme as of February, within the frame of the annual car production plan for 2016, which aims to prevent mass layoffs, saving jobs consequently. The press office of the company has told the agency that the new regime will be implemented between 01 February – 31 July. Accordingly, the staff will be paid in proportion to the new working hours.
The joint facility of PSA/Peugeot-Citroen and Mitsubishi in Kaluga was established in April 2010. 70% of the enterprise, worth €470 million, belongs to PSA/Peugeot-Citroen and the remaining 30% to Mitsubishi. The Kaluga plant has a production capacity of 125,000 vehicles, 85,000 Peugeot and Citroen automobiles and 40,000 SUV from all three brands. Currently, PSMA Rus manufactures four models in full-cycle; two sedans: Peugeot 408 and Citroen C4 and two crossovers: Mitsubishi Outlander and Pajero Sport. As told by the press office of MMS Rus to the agency, the new generation of Mitsubishi Pajero Sport will be put on the Russian market at the end of the first half of 2016. Following the delivery of the first party of vehicles from Thailand, the production of the previous generation of the SUV will be discontinued at PSMA Rus in Kaluga.
