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February 04, 2021 07:57 AM

Bosch says pandemic, chip shortage to weigh on industry growth this year

NICK CAREY and ILONA WISSENBACH
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    Auto supplier Robert Bosch said Thursday the ongoing COVID-19 crisis and a semiconductor chip shortage will weigh on global automotive production growth in 2021.

    Around 85 million vehicles will roll off assembly lines around the world this year, more than the 78 million units produced in 2020 but still below the 92 million cars produced in 2019, the Stuttgart-based supplier said.

    Global automotive production hit a high of 98 million units in 2017.

    "We are quite positive," CEO Volkmar Denner said, although he added that "we still have a long way to go to catch up".

    The supplier said it estimated that the global economy would grow four per cent in 2021 after contracting around 4.5 per cent in 2020.

    Bosch said the "bottleneck" in the global semiconductor chip market had "not left Bosch unscathed."

    General Motors is the latest manufacturer hit by the chip shortage. It said Wednesday that it will cut production next week.

    Stefan Hartung, Bosch's head of mobility solutions, declined to apportion blame for the shortage.

    "We all fight together in close cooperation to solve the problem." he said.

    Bosch said its concerns for automotive production in 2021 extended beyond the pandemic's lingering impact.

    "Political developments such as Brexit and continuing strategic competition between the U.S. and China with its potential for trade restrictions are also negatively impacting global economic development."
     

    PRELIMINARY 2020 RESULTS

    Full-year earnings before interest and taxes fell 41 per cent to 1.9 billion euros (US$2.28 billion) in 2020 from 3.2 billion euros in 2019, and its EBIT margin contracted to 2.5 per cent from 4.2 per cent, according to preliminary figures.

    Revenue fell more than six per cent to 71.6 billion euros (US$85.8 billion). Adjusted for currency exchange rates, sales fell 4.4 per cent.

    Bosch said it had quickly cut costs and capital expenditure as car plants shuttered last spring to help stem the spread of COVID-19 -- the latter by more than 1.1 billion euros -- generating record free cash flow of around 5 billion euros.

    In 2020 the supplier gained 30 new vehicle electrification projects from automakers worth 7.5 billion euros (US$9 billion) and will invest 700 million euros this year on electric vehicle technology, up from 500 million euros in 2020.

    Robert Bosch ranks No. 1 on the Automotive News list of the top 100 global suppliers, with 2019 sales to automakers of US$46.55 billion in fiscal 2019.

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