The UzAuto Motors plant in Asaka will restart at full capacity on Monday, July 17. Currently, the workshops are being launched step by step, the press service of the company informed Gazeta.uz.

Earlier, the company announced that the car plant in Asaka has temporarily suspended operations due to planned modernization work.

It was said that the enterprise, in cooperation with 170 specialists from South Korea and other countries, is launching a planned modernization of the factory's production lines in order to increase production capacity and ensure sustainable production.

As part of the modernization plan, it was planned to develop and start up the software of the new Fanuc (Japan) robotic system in the pressing shop, and to replace the conveyor rails in the painting shop, provide maintenance to the robotic systems in the shop, and test all the systems working in the painting process.

The company announced that the production speed of two lines of the assembly shop will be increased, that is, the production speed of the first line will be increased to 35 units (h/car), and the second line will be able to increase this indicator to 30.

Modernization will increase the annual production volume of all car models. Modernization of the second line allows to increase the annual production volume of Chevrolet Cobalt by 30 thousand units. In 2022, the company produced more than 101,600 cars of this model.

It was also noted that this will not affect the schedule of delivery of cars to consumers.