Volkswagen to Leave Osnabrück Plant as Site Could Produce Air Defense Systems
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- Volkswagen agreed to hand over its Osnabrück plant to Aurelius Capital and Lower Saxony.
- The factory could shift to air-defense production after automobile manufacturing ends next year.
- The move comes as Volkswagen faces high costs and excess production capacity in Germany.
Volkswagen is set to leave its plant in Osnabrück, where production could eventually turn to air-defense systems.
The automaker has agreed to transfer the German factory to Israeli financial company Aurelius Capital and the state of Lower Saxony. The site is expected to gradually reorient toward defense-industry production.
Automobile manufacturing at the plant will end next year. Volkswagen is struggling with high costs and excess production capacity in Germany.
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Originally published by iDNES in Czech. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.
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