* Michigan - Daimler to invest $375 mln to build diesel engines
-- The head of Daimler AG's commercial truck operation told the company will invest $375 million at a complex near Detroit to build diesel engines for medium duty trucks, expanding a strategy of building and selling trucks, engines, transmissions and axles as a package... Bernhard said Daimler, which controls about 40 percent of the U.S. heavy truck market, is not cutting back. Production at its Detroit engine and transmission factories is still running around the clock, seven days a week, he said... Daimler's latest investment in Detroit builds on a strategy Bernhard has pursued to bring engineering and manufacturing of the company's commercial trucks under one roof... Traditionally, especially in North America, heavy truck makers such as Paccar Inc or Navistar International Corp have purchased engines, transmissions, axles and other major components from suppliers such as Cummins Inc , Eaton Corp PLC, Caterpillar Inc or Dana Holding Corp... Government demands to cut carbon dioxide emissions are putting more pressure on commercial vehicle makers. Bernhard said Daimler's response will be to design and engineer itself more of the technology in its vehicles... "We can perfectly optimize those components to each other to get the best fuel economy and reliability," he said...
(Photo: Detroit's new integrated powertrain includes a DD15 engine, DT12 transmission and front and rear Detroit axles) -- Detroit, MICH, USA - Reuters, by Joseph White/Nick Zieminski - Nov 20, 2015Labels: truckmakers' news USA
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