About 60 percent of CAMI employees will be back on the job next month and Plant Chair Mike VanBoekel says they're hoping to have everyone back in December.
INGERSOLL - The CAMI shutdown is about to come to an end.
The Ingersoll plant has been closed for most of the year due to a semi conductor shortage, but Plant Chair Mike Van Boekel says they'll be able to send people back to work next month.
"We have now been informed that we have enough parts to get going again. On November 1st we will start running and as of right now we'll be running one shift for the month of November and then hopefully ramping back up to two full shifts."
The plant employs about 1,700 people. Van Boekel says about 60 percent of them will be going back to work in November and they're hoping to have everyone back in December.
CAMI is also going to add two electric delivery trucks to it's production lines over the next couple of years, becoming Canada's first mass-market producer of electric commercial vehicles.
Van Boekel says they already have about 100 people working on the early stages of the project.
"They are building a few of them all by hand and then in November we will start doing the quality checks and everything else and they will be sellable units. We start slowly building them outside of the plant and then we'll bring them in here next year in full capacity."
He says the vehicles are in high demand, adding they already have the first 3 to 4 years of orders already sold. Production for the BrightDrop EV600 will begin next year and production for the BrightDrop EV410 will begin in 2023.
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