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TRUCKMAKERS NEWS WORLDWIDE
* USA / Germany - Mercedes grows Sprinter line, dealerships
(Video from YouTube, by pentontrans — 9 April 2010 — MB Engineer points out Sprinter Cargo Van features)
Palo Alto,CAL,USA -Fleet Owner, by Jim Mele -Apr 8, 2010: -- Lower prices, more power and a new model are part of the Sprinter’s move to the Mercedes-Benz (MB) brand in North America this year, and the 67 MB dealers who have taken on the light-truck franchise have responded by accounting for two-thirds of the truck’s retail sales in the first quarter of 2010, according to Ernst Lieb, president & CEO of Mercedes-Benz USA... The company announced that it would move marketing and distribution responsibility to its MB-USA automobile business starting in Jan. 2010, offering American truck buyers both MB and Freightliner branded versions... (Photo from wikipedia: Mercedes-Benz Sprinter)
* China - Sinotruk to set up factory in Taiwan
(Video from YouTube, by ivan240587 — 11 March 2010 — First Howo 410 HP in Peru)
Jinan,Shandong,China -China Trucks, by Shujuan Wu -April 7, 2010: ... Sinotruk is to become the first Shandong enterprise to enter Taiwan market... Sinotruk observed and studied Taiwan market last year, and had a strong will to invest in Taiwan, and hoped to explore America market through the collaboration with Taiwan. As the largest truck manufacturing enterprise, Sinotruk’s overseas market are mainly in Middle East and Africa. Whereas, Taiwan auto industry can help Sinotruk comply with American regulation of 2010, and hit American market by the network established by Taiwan industry...
* China - Truck-maker Beiqi Foton to enter India
Beijing,China -Gasgoo -April 12, 2010: -- China's largest commercial vehicle maker, Beiqi Foton Motor Co, is looking to directly enter the Indian market by soon building a factory in Pune, two persons familiar with the development said... Foton, also the world's second largest commercial vehicle maker after Daimler AG, is in talks with the Maharashtra government for procuring land in Pune to build a factory to manufacture light trucks, heavy trucks and buses. The first Foton vehicles on the roads would be low-floor buses mainly aimed at supplying under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission... (Photo from wikipedia: Foton cab truck at Speyer Technology Museum)
* Germany - Celebrating 10 years, Bell Equipment has gone from unknown to leader in a highly competitive dump truck market
(Bell trucks for construction purposes)Eisenach,Thuringen,Germany -Business Review Europe (Norwich, Norfolk,UK), by Ian Armitage & Daniel McDonald -Apr 8, 2010: ... Established in South Africa in 1954, Bell Equipment has, over the years, developed into a leading global manufacturer and exporter of a wide range of materials handling machines. The company manufactures and markets a range of over 50 models of ADTs, wheeled loaders, tri-wheelers, rigid and articulated haulage tractors, backhoes, forklifts, dozers, motor graders, excavators, compaction rollers and a range of customised equipment for the mining, construction, forestry, sugar and related industries...
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(Aerial view Bell's factory on Eisenach, Germany)Bell Equipment has been active in Germany since early 2000 and will this year mark 10 years in the country. The company was largely unknown in Europe at the end of the 1990s. At best, people were familiar with the company from South Africa, which, since 1954, had manufactured machinery and equipment for the construction industry as well as agriculture and forestry. It had to break through... Despite the recession, opportunity has been growing in recent months, particularly in mining industries, and given Bell’s reputation it has been able to capitalise... From humble beginnings, Bell Equipment is now the brand of choice for many around the world...
* India - PROGNOSIS: Medium, heavy truck industry eyes 15% growth in 2010-11
Chennai,India -Financial Chronicle/My Digital FC, by G Balachandar -Apr 12, 2010: -- With continuing positive momentum due to pick up in freight generating sectors and strong infrastructure push by the government, the medium and heavy commercial vehicle industry in the country expects about 15 per cent growth in sales volume for fiscal 2010-11... While overall commercial vehicles industry grew by 38 percent during 2009-10 when compared with previous year, M & HCV segment saw 33 per cent growth in 2009-10 on the back of low base effect in 2008-09 coupled with recovery in domestic industrial sector the fiscal 2009-10. With sharp slump in demand due to recession, the total industry volumes for M & HCV in 2008-09 fell 33 per cent to 183,541 units from 274,582 units in 2007-08... But thanks to stimulus measures by the government, the demand position started improving and there was overall pick up in economic and industrial activities in the fiscal that ended on March 31. While the country’s largest commercial vehicles (CVs) maker Tata Motors reported 36 per cent growth in domestic truck volumes at 155,137 units, second largest player Ashok Leyland reported 31 per cent at 40,706 units for 2009-10... With freight generating sectors such as coal, steel and cement showing growth and infrastructure development, the truck makers upbeat on strong growth in volumes in the current fiscal...
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