Edition: Tue, 07.01.2025
2ndLife production is running at full speed
The assembly of 2ndLife vehicles is currently underway on the KYBURZ production line in Embrach. 120 vehicles are being produced. ‘These vehicles will be like new, but the assembly is more complicated than with new vehicles,’ says production employee Burhan Shoshaj. He is referring to improvements and simplifications that have been implemented over the years to improve new vehicles.
The team is also challenged in the work preparation department: ‘Organising the material so that it is prepared and delivered in the required quantity is a challenge,’ says Sandro Schmidli. He also has to re-enter the chassis numbers in the system (the vehicles have already been produced once) and reassign them.
Of the 120 vehicles that are being built these days, 40 will have new chassis. ‘The chassis is currently the limiting component,’ explains Carmine Volpe (Head of Supply Chain Management), because ‘there are also chassis that can no longer be used due to collisions and corrosion.’
However, the challenging implementation of the idea of the circular economy seems to motivate all employees, all the more so as twenty of the vehicles have already been sold!
