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TRUCKMAKERS NEWS * WORLDWIDE
* Italy - Fiat truck subsidiary Iveco to close five plants in Europe
Turin,Italy -World Socialist Web Site, by Michael Regens -13 October 2012: -- Workers at Fiat’s truck subsidiary Iveco have been involved in a fight for their jobs for some months. The Italian car maker plans to close five European plants in its truck division by the end of this year. The Fiat board has justified the closures by citing the economic contraction in southern Europe and a sharp drop in truck sales... The closures affect 1,075 employees. In Germany, three plants are due to close in Ulm, Weisweil and Görlitz. In addition, Iveco production facilities will be closed in Chambery, France and Graz, Austria... The closures are part of a radical rationalization program undertaken by Fiat in Europe. Earlier, the company closed its bus manufacturing facilities in Avellino, Italy and Barcelona, Spain. In May this year, Fiat’s fire truck subsidiary Camiva announced the closure of its factory in Saint-Alban-Leysse in Savoy... The closures were “painful but necessary”, the Fiat Group executive declared, while announcing at the same time that Fiat Industrial had increased its profits in the first quarter of this year by more than 90 percent, to 207 million euros, compared to the same quarter last year...
* Germany - What truckmakers have to learn from the chinese
(Photo by Matthijs Koster - China was never known for state-of-the-art trucks) Berlin,Germany -DIE WELT/Worldcrunch, by Birger Nicolai -13 Oct 2012: -- This truck has been shipped from China, where it was bought from the country’s biggest truck maker, CIMC. It looks just like the kind of truck a child would draw: bright red, very long, very high, with massive wheels. Everything about it is just a tad too big for German roads... The truck is nearly 46 feet long (14 meters) and weighs 7.5 tons – which makes it about one and a half times heavier than a similar vehicle in Germany. But that’s the only way it could haul 50 to 60 tons, which is what it would be loaded with in China – a weight the air suspension commonly used for European trucks couldn’t handle... The Chinese truck’s days are numbered. It’s standing at the Schmitz Cargobull test center in Altenberge (North Rhine-Westphalia), and engineers at this large manufacturer of trailer trucks are going to dismantle it completely... So the destruction of the Chinese truck in Altenberge has a creative reason. "We want to know in detail how a truck like this is built in China, and what the load-bearing capacity is," says test center boss Michael Wildhagen. In machine building, copying from one another is not considered dishonorable as long as no laws are broken. At VW, there are allegedly 60 workers engaged in the “analysis of foreign products,” as Volkswagen calls it...
* China - Expanding to overseas markets
Beijing,China -China Daily, by Wang Chao -19 Oct 2012: -- The largest commercial vehicle maker in China is expanding to overseas markets to drive future growth. Truck makers in congested Chinese market set horizons overseas Twenty years ago, foreign companies swarmed to China to make fortunes, but today the gold rush has been reversed, with Chinese companies prospecting overseas... Beiqi Foton Motor Co has grown from a small agricultural machinery company to China's leading commercial vehicle manufacturer in terms of sales volume over the past decade. Its annual report shows that it earned 52 billion yuan (6.4 billion euros; $8.3 billion) in 2011 exporting 36,367 vehicles. Foton have already made an impact on the world truck market this year. In March, it established a company in Kenya, another major investment in Africa after it opened a KD factory in east Africa last year. It also secured a site in India, where a factory will be built by the end of 2013... In 2010, the company formed an overseas expansion strategy called "5+3+1". This means by 2020, it will build factories in five overseas markets (India, Russia, Brazil, Mexico and Indonesia), each with a production capacity of 100,000 units; make breakthroughs in three mature markets (North America, Europe, and South Korea-Japan); and build one R and D center in Beijing for new-energy vehicles...
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