Over 500 workers at the Continental Vila Real factory have had their working week reduced to four days due to a lack of materials. Continental’s Vila Real unit is one of the world’s leading specialists and manufacturers of vehicle antennas and almost all of its production is exported. The director of Continental Advanced Antenna said that the interruptions caused by the crisis imposed by Covid-19 had provoked an “extreme volatility in the entire automobile industry”.
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