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Daimler Truck AG

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founding 1st November 2019
Seat Stuttgart , GermanyGermanyGermany 
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Number of employees 100,000 (2019)
Branch Commercial vehicles , buses
Website www.daimler-truck.com
As of November 1, 2019

The Daimler Truck AG is one of the world's largest commercial vehicle manufacturer, with over 35 world's main sites and around 100,000 employees. Daimler Trucks & Daimler Buses includes the seven vehicle brands BharatBenz, Freightliner, FUSO, Mercedes-Benz, Setra, Thomas Built Buses and Western Star. Daimler Truck AG is based in Stuttgart and has been a wholly-owned subsidiary of Daimler AG since November 1, 2019 . Daimler Trucks is the global market leader in the field of medium and heavy trucks over 6 tons gross vehicle weight. In 2018, 517,300 vehicles were delivered in this area.

In addition to the Mercedes-Benz trucks , the Freightliner , Western Star , BharatBenz , Thomas Built Buses and FUSO brands belong to Daimler Trucks. In 2018, the most important sales market was the NAFTA countries with 37%, followed by Asia with 32%, Western Europe ( EU plus Norway and Switzerland) with 17% and Latin America (excluding the NAFTA country Mexico) with 7%.

In 2018, Daimler Buses maintained its market leadership in the core markets of Europe, Mexico, Brazil and Argentina and sold 30,888 vehicles worldwide. In addition to the Mercedes-Benz buses, BharatBenz Buses, FUSO Buses and Setra belong to Daimler Buses.

Business figures

Of the total of 298,683 employees in the Daimler Group at the end of 2018 (2017: 289,321), 82,953 (2016: 79,483) were employed in the Daimler Trucks division, of which 30,447 (2017: 30,424) were in Germany and 16,647 in the USA (2017: 15,002). In 2018, Daimler Trucks accounted for around 23 percent of the Group's total sales (2018: € 167.4 billion; 2017: € 164.3 billion).

Fiscal year sales EBIT Employees (31.12.)
2012 € 31.389 billion € 1.695 billion
2013   € 31.473 billion   € 1.637 billion
2014   € 32.389 billion   € 1.878 billion
2015   € 37.578 billion   € 2.576 billion
2016   € 33.187 billion   € 1.948 billion 78,642
2017   € 35.707 billion   € 2.380 billion   79,483
2018   € 38.273 billion   € 2.753 billion   82,953

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Vehicles sold
country 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010
total 517,300 470,700 415.100 502,500 ~ 496,000
Western Europe 85,400 82,300 79,800 64,800 ~ 57,000
of which: Germany 32,900 31,700 31,500 ~ 32,000 29,900 33,500 31,100 31,200 30,300
Great Britain 8100 9,100 ~ 8,000 ~ 9,000 ~ 8,000 9,400 6,900 ? 7,600
France 9,200 8,200 ~ 8000 ~ 7,000 ~ 8,000 8,400 7,400 ? ?
NAFTA 189,700 165,000 145,700 191,900
of which USA 160,600 140,200 ~ 122,000 ~ 167,000 141,600 117,800 113,800 96,900 62,600
Canada ? ? ? ? 13,100 11,200 13,900 11,300 8,000
Latin America (excluding Mexico) 38200 30,500 27,500 ~ 31,000 ~ 47,000
Brazil 21,400 13,400 12,100 16,400 32,200 38,800 29,000 44,100 44,300
Asia 164,700 148,600 ~ 125,000 ~ 148,000 ~ 167,000
Japan 44,000 44,800 46,400 45,600 43,900 38,300 35,000 27,000 24,800
Indonesia 64,200 42,700 28,000 32,100 58,300 64,700 68,500 62,400 56,100
Turkey ? 11,800 9,300 24,900 22,200 19,500 18,300 19,900 14,600
Taiwan (ROC) ? ? ? ? ? 5,700 12,300 12,100 8,500
India ? 16,700 13,100 14,000 10,300 6,500 ? ? ?
Near and Middle East ? 23,600 17,600 36,300
Dubai ? ? ? ? 11,900 15,600 14,500 8,000 7,800
Saudi Arabia ? ? ? ? 10,300 8,500 9,500 6,500 ?
People's Republic of China 103,400 112,400 77,800 69,200 99,200
Total including China ? ~ 583,000 ~ 493,000 ~ 572,000 ~ 595,000
~ = numbers rounded to 1000 from the annual reports,? = No numbers available.

The figures for PR China and total including China are for information purposes only, as the figures are not included in Daimler's result.

Brands

Daimler Trucks locations

The 24 locations of Daimler Trucks and their subsidiaries worldwide are located in Germany (5), Turkey, France, Portugal, the USA (7) and Mexico (2), Brazil (2), Japan (4), South Africa and India. The product range includes light, medium and heavy trucks for long-distance, distribution and construction site transport as well as municipal and special vehicles such as the Unimog . Vehicles for military use are also manufactured. Due to the close links in terms of production technology, the Thomas Built Buses (subsidiary of Daimler Trucks North America ) and Mitsubishi Fuso brands are also part of Daimler Trucks.

Mercedes-Benz plant in Wörth

The plant in Wörth am Rhein is the world's largest truck assembly plant. It has a floor area of ​​2,463,186 m² and a constructed area of ​​544,729 m². The average daily production is over 470 vehicles (as of July 2018). 10,357 employees worked at the Wörth plant at the end of 2017. The following Mercedes-Benz trucks are manufactured in Wörth :

  • Actros : heavy class for use in long-distance traffic, heavy traffic and construction traffic
  • Arocs : heavy class for use in the construction industry
  • Atego : distribution transport in the city
  • Antos : Semitrailer tractors and flatbed trucks especially for use in heavy distribution transport
  • Econic : municipal, collective and distribution traffic
  • Unimog : all-terrain vehicle as an implement carrier
  • Zetros : all-terrain, heavy truck

History of the Wörth plant

  • 1963: Start of production of truck cabs, around 100 employees
  • 1965: Start of truck assembly, first complete vehicle
  • 1973: Start of production of the model series called NG73
  • 1984: Start of production of the LN series
  • 1988: Start of production of the Mercedes-Benz SK
  • 1989: Start-up of the central spare parts warehouse in Germersheim , spare parts service outsourced
  • 1996/97: Start of the Actros
  • 1998: The LN series is replaced by the Atego series
  • 2000: Construction of the Wörth industrial park begins
  • 2001: Start of Axor production
  • 2002: Relocation of Unimog and Econic production to Wörth
  • 2004: Atego facelift
  • 2008: Start of the Zetros, inauguration of the development and test center for trucks.
  • 2010: Start of production for the facelifted Atego, expansion of the I-Park
  • 2011: Launch of the new Mercedes-Benz Actros model generation

Mercedes-Benz plant in Mannheim

Diesel engines for trucks are produced and assembled at the Mannheim plant. In addition to the cylinder crankcases, flywheels and cylinder heads, the truck axles are also cast in the company's own foundry. In addition, vehicles (e.g. B-Class, Sprinter) are converted to natural gas drive and fuel cell vehicles are built in Mannheim . One of the EvoBus factories is also located on the same site . This is where the Mercedes-Benz city buses and the bodyshells for coach production are produced in Ulm .

Mercedes-Benz plant in Gaggenau

Mercedes-Benz plant in Gaggenau

Gearboxes and planetary axles for trucks are produced in Gaggenau . The products include manual and automated gearboxes, commercial vehicle axles (AP and portal axles) and torque converters for car automatic transmissions. Furthermore, products in the field of machining technology, forming technology (pressed parts for Mercedes A- and B-Class) and services in the field of international logistics are offered. The Rastatt plant , which was established in 1971 and is commonly known as the Rastatt transmission plant , manufactures transmissions for trucks and the A and B classes. The Kuppenheim press shop, which produces body parts for trucks and cars, belongs to the Gaggenau plant. The Unimog was assembled in Gaggenau from 1951 to 2002 .

The plant employs over 6,000 people (December 31, 2017) and is the largest industrial company in the Black Forest .

The Gaggenau plant was founded in 1894 as a Bergmann Industriewerk . At that time steam engines and automatons were manufactured. From 1895 the first series car was produced in the Murg Valley with the " Orient Express ". It is therefore the oldest continuously used automobile plant in the world. Three years later, Bergmann manufactured the first trucks and buses there. With the production of a “device for changing the speed of motor vehicles”, gear manufacturing began in Gaggenau in 1895. In 1907 the plant was taken over by Benz & Cie. Rheinische Gasmotorenfabrik in Mannheim taken over. The Benz-Werke Gaggenau GmbH were in 1926 through the merger of Daimler and Benz part of the Daimler-Benz AG.

Mercedes-Benz plant in Kassel

Axles for the Group's commercial vehicles have been produced here with around 3,000 employees since 1970. It is the former Henschel commercial vehicle plant that Daimler-Benz was able to integrate through the takeover of Hanomag-Henschel .

Daimler Trucks North America

  • Cleveland Truck Manufacturing Plant, Cleveland, North Carolina, USA: Class 8 truck
  • Gastonia Parts Manufacturing Plant, Gastonia (North Carolina) , USA: Cabs, chassis, components
  • Thomas Built Buses Manufacturing Plant, High Point (North Carolina), USA: buses
  • Mount Holly Truck Manufacturing Plant, Mount Holly, North Carolina : Medium-duty truck
  • Portland Truck Manufacturing Plant, Portland (Oregon) , USA: Western Star Trucks trucks - 4900 EX, 4900 SA, 4900 FA and 6900 XD; Freightliner brand trucks: Century Class S / T, Columbia, and Coronado models; heavy military vehicles
  • Detroit Diesel Redford Plant, Detroit ( Michigan ), USA: Engines, axles and transmissions for Freightliner trucks
  • Freightliner Custom Chassis Corporation Manufacturing Plant, Gaffney (South Carolina) , USA: Chassis for special vehicles
  • Santiago Tianguistenco (Mexico), Truck Manufacturing Plant: Freightliner brand trucks
  • Saltillo (Mexico), Truck Manufacturing Plant: Freightliner brand trucks

Mercedes-Benz in Argentina

  • González Catán : Production of engines, axles, transmissions as well as vans, trucks and buses

Mercedes-Benz in Brazil

Daimler Trucks in Russia

  • Naberezhnye Chelny : Participation i. H. v. 15 percent in the manufacturer KAMAZ . Delivery of cabs from Wörth, axles from Kassel and Gaggenau as well as engines from Mannheim. The components are installed in heavy KAMAZ trucks (6 × 6) as well as in buses.
  • CKD production site of the Daimler Kamaz RUS (DK RUS) joint venture . Capacity of up to 6000 Mercedes trucks (Actros / Axor / Atego).
  • As part of the joint venture Daimler Kamaz RUS (DK RUS), a new plant for the production of frames for Mercedes-Benz cabs is to be built in Naberezhnye Chelny by 2020. KAMAZ and Mercedes-Benz trucks produced in Russia are to be equipped with it.

Daimler Trucks in China

Joint venture Beijing Foton Daimler Automotive with Beiqi Foton Motor to produce the heavy truck Foton Auman .

Daimler Trucks Asia

Daimler Trucks in Turkey

  • Aksaray : Production of Atego, Axor, Actros and Unimog, product development

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Daimler Buses at a Glance - 2019 edition . media.daimler.com. Retrieved December 3, 2019.
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  7. ↑ Daimler AG, Annual Report 2014
  8. ↑ Daimler AG, Annual Report 2013
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  10. ↑ Daimler AG, Annual Report 2010
  11. ↑ a b c d e f g h Not explicitly listed in the corresponding annual report.
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