Scania to construct truckmaker in Russia
Swedish trukmaker Scania will construct in Russia a plant to produce heavy trucks, RZD-Partner reports.
Scania’s undertaking is the third project of Russia’s truck assembly announced in the last three months – Volvo and DaimlerChrysler have declared the respective plans already. Indeed, here the sales of imported trucks have outpaced even KamAZ, but oreigners and KamAZ operate in different segments of the market, which annual growth is estimated at nearly 40 percent overall.
Scania reported Friday the business expansion in Russia. For this purpose, it will construct a plant capable of assembling some 10,000 heavy trucks each year. Production capacity will be attained during four or five years, representatives of Scania specified. The project is at initial stage and the talks with Russia’s authorities haven’t begun yet.
According to Scania Russia chief Raimo Lehtio, Russia’s plant will emerge as one of consortium’s five biggest enterprises in the world. Nowadays, Scania has four truckmakers – in Sweden, Poland, France and Brazil. Russia’s facility will become the fifth plant and a portion of its product will be exported to Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan. Mr Lehtio said 10,000 trucks are the capacity of the first stage and the output could be doubled later on. The plant will assembly trucks that are currently imported to Russia, i.e. with engines of 230 hp to 580 hp. The project budget will reach dozens of million euros and the launch of the first stage is slated for 2009 to 2010, the official said.
Scania’s undertaking is the third project of Russia’s truck assembly announced in the last three months – Volvo and DaimlerChrysler have declared the respective plans already. Indeed, here the sales of imported trucks have outpaced even KamAZ, but oreigners and KamAZ operate in different segments of the market, which annual growth is estimated at nearly 40 percent overall.
Scania reported Friday the business expansion in Russia. For this purpose, it will construct a plant capable of assembling some 10,000 heavy trucks each year. Production capacity will be attained during four or five years, representatives of Scania specified. The project is at initial stage and the talks with Russia’s authorities haven’t begun yet.
According to Scania Russia chief Raimo Lehtio, Russia’s plant will emerge as one of consortium’s five biggest enterprises in the world. Nowadays, Scania has four truckmakers – in Sweden, Poland, France and Brazil. Russia’s facility will become the fifth plant and a portion of its product will be exported to Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan. Mr Lehtio said 10,000 trucks are the capacity of the first stage and the output could be doubled later on. The plant will assembly trucks that are currently imported to Russia, i.e. with engines of 230 hp to 580 hp. The project budget will reach dozens of million euros and the launch of the first stage is slated for 2009 to 2010, the official said.