Scania inaugurates manufacturing facility in India

Volkswagen-group owned Swedish commercial vehicle (CV) maker Scania has just set up a manufacturing facility at Bangalore, India. The facility will build both on-road trucks and buses through separate assembly lines for the Indian market. While Scania has had a presence in the commercial vehicle space since 2007, through its alliance with Larsen and Toubro for off-road and mining trucks, it is only recently that the CV maker has forayed into the on-road truck and inter-city bus spaces. Click here to read Team-BHP's report on Scania's inter-city buses. 

High points of Scania's new factory at Narsapura, off Bangalore:

• The factory entails an investment of 250 crore rupees
• The factory plans to employ 800 people in the next five years
• Scania's plans include the assemblage of 2,500 heavy haulage trucks and 1,000 inter city buses
• The localization level for trucks stands at 18 % while that for bus bodies stands at 100 %
• Scania plans to progressively include higher local content in both its trucks and buses
• The facility will also contain a service workshop and a central parts warehouse
• The facility will function as Scania's Indian head office and the head of all commercial operations within the country