The last time light vehicle production in Canada was this poor, the Maple Leafs were still winning Stanley Cups. According to a report from DesRosiers Automotive Consultants, last year’s vehicle production of 1.1 million vehicles was on par with levels not seen since 1967. Production numbers have been in a steady decline since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, with the industry putting out two million vehicles in 2019, down to 1.4 million in 2020. DesRosiers said Toyota led production among Canada’s top five automakers with about 427,000 units. General Motors only managed to produce about 36,500 vehicles this year, however, that number is likely to jump up by next year thanks to the addition of a second shift at GM’s Oshawa assembly plant.
The last time Canadian vehicle production was this low, the
Toronto Maple Leafs still stood a shot at the Stanley Cup.
Axalta is attempting to push the environmental envelope, announcing a commitment to reduce 50 percent of certain greenhouse gas emissions in its operations by 2030. This announcement pushes the global coatings developer into good position to achieve carbon neutrality by 2040, ten years ahead of the deadline set by the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. Axalta also established a set of ten sustainability goals to be achieved by 2030, chief among which is to feature some amount of sustainability features in at least 80 percent of the company’s products by the end of the decade.
