Ineos to Restart Vehicle Production After Undisclosed Supply Problems

Ineos Grenadiers and Quartermasters hard-core off-road models will restart production from early January after an undisclosed “critical supply shortage" was resolved, the automaker confirms.

The British-branded vehicles, engineered in Austria and built at Ineos’ Hambach plant in France, saw production stopped during the autumn owing to supply issues rumored to be linked to bankruptcy issues from its supplier Recaro.

Germany’s sports seat supplier filed for insolvency in July, four years after being purchased by a U.S. private investment company.

Now Ineos announces that all its production partners have been informed and are ready to support resumption of operations.

Its Hambach site produces the Grenadier station wagon, Quartermaster double-cab pickup and Quartermaster double-cab chassis models to be delivered across five continents.

In a company statement, CEO Lynn Calder says: “It’s great news that a solution has been found so quickly. Automotive supply chains are extremely complex but we were not willing to compromise on quality, so we are satisfied that we have found the best possible outcome.

“By this summer we had sold as many Grenadiers as we had for the whole of 2023 and are on track to have over 20,000 Grenadiers on the road before the end of this year.

“We now turn our attention to preparing Hambach to restart in early January and with significant growth in major new markets, including China and Mexico, and substantial expansion in the U.S., I believe 2025 is going to be our best year yet.”