Question-and-Answer Session
(Operator Instructions). And our first question comes from Casey Flavin from CJS Securities. Please go ahead. Hello, Mr. Flavin, if you are using speaker equipment if you could please lift the handset. Thank you.
Casey Flavin - CJS Securities
Sorry about that. Good morning, guys. Despite strong sales in Q1, obviously there is continued concerns regarding the American Axle strike and revised global production forecasts that are weighing on shares. Dan, can I just ask you if you were to assume that the strike were to continue through the next quarter, can you just share with us your view as to how this could potentially impact revenue growth in Q2, as well as the timing of various platform introductions that you expect in the second half?
Dan Coker
Certainly. Well, first let's review what has happened with the American Axle strike and Amerigon's current platforms within General Motors. The GMT-900 line is a big contributor of our revenues and our GM business. Most of those products are built out of two plants, one in Arlington, Texas, and one in Silao, Mexico. Both of those plants capriciously are supplied out of an American Axle plant located in Mexico and is not directly affected by the USA UAW workers strike. So the source of supply of axles and the drivetrain products supplied by American Axle to General Motors has not been disrupted.
In the month of April, the Arlington plant was shutdown briefly while they re-diverted some of the axle sets to some of the pickup truck plants that are affected by the strike. And so we did have a two-week, maybe two and a half week disruption, but that plant is back up into full production, and they are making Escalades, all three models of The Escalades that we currently on pretty close to full production right now.
The other impact on us was some brake parts were supplied to plants that produced the Cadillac DTS and the Buick Lucerne. Both of those plants started back into full production again this week. We have made our releases this week and our schedules for the rest of the quarter are currently out.
So, the direct impact to Amerigon on a short-term basis has been mainly disruptions to our schedules, and the ability to react and balance the supply chain materials in and out of these operations. While these plants were down, we did have a fall shortfall of a few thousand sets of seats that would have arrived at these plants on schedule that didn't.
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