Scania has announced the plans to manufacture about 2,500 heavy haulage trucks besides 1,000 inter-city buses and coaches annually at its facility in Narasapura, Karnataka.
Currently the localization is 18 per cent for trucks and 100 per cent for bus bodies. Scania will also employ over 800 people at this facility within five years.
The facility will serve as company’s head office and center for all commercial operations across the country.
The operations will consist of final assembly of trucks with bodywork and building of complete coaches along with a service workshop and a central parts warehouse for timely service.
The Narasapura plant will house two manufacturing units – one for truck assembly and another for buses.
Scania started production of trucks at the new facility in Narasapura during June and production trials have started for mining and off-road trucks.
Production of on-road trucks will start soon and the bus rollout is planned for the first quarter of 2014.