大众汽车工厂新回收中心难消除关厂担忧 记者 瑞秋·莫尔 德国茨维考，10月28日电 - 大众汽车位于茨维考的纯电动汽车工厂周三揭幕了一个零部件回收新设施，凸显了一个潜在的未来业务线，但该工厂在集团重组下仍面临2030年代初可能关闭的命运。
Volkswagen plant's new recycling hub does little to ease closure fears By Rachel More ZWICKAU, Germany, Oct 28 - Volkswagen's all-electric car plant in Zwickau unveiled a new recycling facility for components on Wednesday, highlighting a potential future business line even as the site faces possible closure from the early 2030s under the group's restructuring.
受其在中国数十年统治地位丧失以及来自中国竞争对手在欧洲日益激烈的竞争冲击，大众汽车正大力推进深度降本，计划包括削减10万个岗位以及可能关闭四家德国工厂。
Hit by the loss of its decades-long dominance in China and mounting competition from Chinese competitors in Europe, Volkswagen is pressing ahead with deep cost cuts, including plans for 100,000 job reductions and the possible closure of four German plants.
茨维考是面临威胁的工厂之一，目前规划至2031年后无车型生产安排，这给周三大众汽车首个“循环经济中心”在萨克森州这家工厂的启动蒙上了一层阴影。
Zwickau is among the sites under threat, with no vehicle production currently planned beyond 2031, casting a shadow over Wednesday's launch of Volkswagen's first "Circular Economy Hub" at the factory in the eastern state of Saxony.
大众汽车表示，已有100名工人接受再培训，将从2027年起在该工厂每年拆解4100辆汽车。
Volkswagen said 100 workers had been retrained and would begin dismantling 4,100 vehicles a year at the site from 2027.
“对我们而言，拆解和回收不意味着废品场——而是创造价值，”大众汽车量产品牌首席执行官托马斯·舍费尔说。
"For us, dismantling and recycling doesn't mean a junkyard — it means creating value," said Thomas Schaefer, the CEO of Volkswagen's volume brands.
“目前只是‘试点项目’” 该项目授予茨维考，旨在长远保住多达1000个就业岗位。大众汽车计划投资最多9000万欧元（约1亿美元），州政府承诺提供1070万欧元。
A 'PILOT PROJECT' FOR NOW The project was awarded to Zwickau in a bid to secure up to 1,000 jobs over the longer term. Volkswagen plans to invest up to €90 million ($100 million), while the regional government has pledged €10.7 million.
但这一举措对该工厂仅能提供有限缓解，根据大众汽车7月宣布的改革，该厂约8000个岗位面临风险。预计生产班次调整也将从2026年中期开始造成产能过剩。
But the initiative offers only limited relief for a site where around 8,000 jobs are at risk under Volkswagen's overhaul announced in July. Production shifts are also expected to create excess capacity from mid-2026.
随着极右翼反对党支持率居高不下，萨克森州政府面临压力，必须保护与该州四分之一就业岗位相关的汽车工业。
With support for the far-right opposition running high, Saxony's government is under pressure to protect an auto industry linked to one in four jobs in the state.
州经济部部长德克·潘特表示，新设施表明大众汽车正在与员工和地区合作，为汽车行业的未来寻找持久解决方案。
State Economy Minister Dirk Panter said the new facility showed Volkswagen was working with employees and the region to find durable solutions for the sector's future.
潘特在一份声明中表示：“汽车零部件的循环经济开辟了新的商业机会，创造了额外价值，并提供了长期的就业前景。”
"The circular economy for automotive components opens up new business opportunities, creates additional value and offers long-term employment prospects," Panter said in a statement.
然而，公司消息人士和行业观察人士表示，仅靠回收利用业务无法保障该工厂的未来。
However, company sources and industry observers said the recycling venture alone would not secure the plant's future.
德国伍珀塔尔研究所循环经济研究员亨宁·威尔茨表示，茨维考中心仍是一项实验，其商业可行性尚未得到证实。
Henning Wilts, a circular economy researcher at Germany's Wuppertal Institute, said the Zwickau hub remained an experiment whose commercial viability had yet to be proven.
“这是一个试点项目，你启动它是为了看看它是否可扩展，以及它是否真的是一项能足够快获得回报的投资，”威尔茨说，并补充道：“这当然不是欧洲汽车行业所有问题的答案。”
"This is a pilot project that you launch to see if it's scalable and if it's really an investment that will pay off quickly enough," Wilts said, adding: "It is certainly not the answer to all the questions in the European auto industry."