Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has announced efforts to help its supply chain and a partial restart of operations following August’s crippling cyber attack.

The company said “qualifying” supplier companies would be eligible for early payments due to the disruption caused by the temporary shutdown of its factories.

At the same time, it said the phased restart of its manufacturing sites would begin at its Electric Propulsion Manufacturing Centre and its Battery Assembly Centre in the West Midlands on Wednesday.

“JLR colleagues will also begin to return on Wednesday to the company’s stamping operations in Castle Bromwich, Halewood and Solihull, UK, and other key areas of its Solihull vehicle production plant, such as its body shop, paint shop and its Logistics Operations Centre, which feeds parts to JLR’s global manufacturing sites.” a statement said.

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