{"id":6683,"date":"2014-09-25T14:35:18","date_gmt":"2014-09-25T14:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=6683"},"modified":"2014-09-25T14:35:18","modified_gmt":"2014-09-25T14:35:18","slug":"commercial-vehicle-production-falls-43-5-in-august-as-retooling-hits-output","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/6683","title":{"rendered":"Commercial vehicle production falls 43.5% in August as retooling hits output"},"content":{"rendered":"

Commercial vehicle production has been falling steadily in the UK all year, as we’ve pointed out before<\/a>, but August’s 43.5% fall (compared to August 2013) was substantially larger than the 20% or so we’ve seen in previous months, thanks to the impact of additional factory shutdowns for retooling activity, according the latest\u00a0production report from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT).<\/p>\n

“UK commercial vehicle production fell 43.5% in August \u2013 traditionally the year\u2019s quietest month \u2013 as some plants took additional shutdown to retool for new models,” said Mike Hawes, SMMT Chief Executive. “We expect the recent decline to level off in the next few months as newly introduced models reach full production and the rising demand across the EU takes hold.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here’s a\u00a0full overview of UK CV\u00a0production in August:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
CV manufacturing<\/strong><\/td>\nAug-13<\/strong><\/td>\nAug-14<\/strong><\/td>\n% Change<\/strong><\/td>\nYTD-13<\/strong><\/td>\nYTD-14<\/strong><\/td>\n% Change<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Total<\/strong><\/td>\n3,772<\/strong><\/td>\n2,130<\/strong><\/td>\n-43.5%<\/strong><\/td>\n60,890<\/strong><\/td>\n45,928<\/strong><\/td>\n-24.6%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Home<\/td>\n1,416<\/td>\n1,229<\/td>\n-13.2%<\/td>\n27,783<\/td>\n21,952<\/td>\n-21.0%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Export<\/td>\n2,356<\/td>\n901<\/td>\n-61.8%<\/td>\n33,107<\/td>\n23,976<\/td>\n-27.6%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
% export<\/td>\n62.5%<\/td>\n42.3%<\/td>\n<\/td>\n54.4%<\/td>\n52.2%<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Data courtesy of SMMT (www.smmt.co.uk<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n

Does August’s\u00a0jumbo fall mean that production will finally start to rebound from September?\u00a0The ramp-up of production of the new Vauxhall Vivaro model<\/a> (at Luton) should help, but it’s hard to imagine production rising to 2013 levels, let alone those seen as recently as 2012 — as these graphs show:<\/p>\n

\"SMMT

UK CV output August 2014 (courtesy of SMMT)<\/p><\/div>\n

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UK CV manufacturing output fell by 43.5% in August compared to the same period last year, as last year’s closures continued to drop out of the numbers, and the cuts were added to by additional retooling closures this summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[310,1710],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6683"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6683"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6686,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6683\/revisions\/6686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}