Higer bus
| HIGER BUS Company Ltd.
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| legal form | Limited |
| founding | 1998 |
| Seat | Suzhou , Jiangsu Province , People's Republic of China |
| Number of employees | 6,000 |
| sales | 8.86 billion RMB (2012) |
| Branch | vehicle construction |
| Website | www.goldendragonbus.com |
HIGER BUS Company Ltd. (short: HIGER ) is a Chinese manufacturer of travel , urban and minibuses and pick-ups . The company, which was only founded in 1998, is part of the King Long Group and has an annual production capacity of 35,000 buses.
history
The company HIGER BUS Company Ltd. was founded in December 1998 in Suzhou Prefecture of Jiangsu Province . Around 1,000 vehicles were manufactured in the first year of production; 2005 already more than 10,000.
Higer is an export-oriented company: For example, in 2006 , 500 buses were delivered for the 15th Asia Games in Doha , ( Qatar ). In the following year 1,000 vehicle buses were exported to Russia; In addition, exports to South America were increased.
Since September 2006 comfort coaches of the model SCANIA HIGER A 80 have been produced in cooperation with the Swedish bus manufacturer Scania ; The chassis comes largely from Scania, while Higer manufactures the body . In 2008 this model passed the rollover tests newly introduced by the European Union. In March 2007, the production of a further cooperation project was started with the luxury coach SCANIA-HIGER A90 . With this vehicle, Higer was voted the coach manufacturer with the best safety equipment at the Shanghai Asia Exposition in 2007 and 2008 ( Best Safety Equipment ).
After 20,000 vehicles were sold in one year for the first time in 2010, the expansion of the production line to include dip painting was completed in 2011 with an investment volume of 200 million RMB .
Like most export-oriented companies in China, Higer is increasing its sales activities in Africa: In Algeria, the second largest automobile market in Africa (after South Africa), 2,258 vehicles were sold by 2011. In the same year sales activities began in Morocco, Libya and Tunisia. Higer has been the market leader in the bus business in Angola since 2012 . In Ethiopia, Higer was able to prevail against competitors in a state tender in 2011 and sold 502 midibuses, further sales activities exist in Ghana and Zambia as well as in Sudan.
For Higer , as for many other Chinese commercial vehicle manufacturers, Africa is now a traditional sales market from which European automotive companies are largely withdrawing and Japanese manufacturers are increasingly being displaced.
Group structure
HIGER BUS is a subsidiary of holding company Xiamen King Long United Automotive Industry Company Ltd. , King Long for short , one of the largest bus manufacturers in the world. The bus manufacturer Golden Dragon also belongs to this company .
At the Suzhou location, there is a production facility on a company site with around 800,000 m 2 . The production capacity is given as 35,000 vehicles per year; a total of more than 6,000 people are employed (as of 2013). The company also runs a research center for post-graduate students , the Jiangsu Region Technology Center and a newly created R&D center for coaches.
As is usual with many Chinese companies, Higer fulfills the involvement in social tasks expected by the state. As part of the Higer Bus Hope Primary School project, the renewal of elementary schools in remote regions, for example in the provinces of Guizhou and Gansu , and the equipping of elementary schools with computer rooms, for example in Tibet . The company also participates in fundraising campaigns for earthquake-hit regions in China, most recently in the Wenchuan earthquake that left nearly 6 million people homeless.
Current products
Higer offers 300 different bus models from 6 to 18 meters in length. The spectrum ranges from minibuses and midibuses to coaches and city buses to articulated buses and double-decker buses . The company also produces a large number of school buses , for which there are stricter safety regulations in China than in Europe.
As part of a cooperation agreement with Scania , Higer builds the Scania-Touring high-decker coach and the Scania-Higer A30 coach ; both vehicles are marketed by Scania in Europe .
Higer sells a revised version of the Toyota Ventury minibus in the People's Republic of China under the name Higer KLQ6540 . There is a cooperation with Micro Cars from Sri Lanka .
Since May 2011, the company has been offering a pick-up with a double cab called the Higer H5P .
In cooperation with the Bulgarian company Chariot Motors, Higer also builds electric buses which are marketed under the product name Chariot ebus . These will probably also be used in the Austrian city of Graz from April 2017.
Picture gallery
Scania Touring with Higer body
Higer city bus in George Town , Malaysia
Higer public service bus in Kingissepp , Russia
Higer tour bus near Perm , Russia
Higer bus in Tanzania (2020)
Trivia
In August 2009, 325 Higer buses were used on the occasion of the Ramadan festival in Qatar . The buses traveling in one line with a total length of around five kilometers made an entry in the Guinness Book of Records ; the record for the “longest bus parade in the world”, which was set by RegioBus Hannover in the same year with 119 buses, was thus surpassed.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Higer about us ( Memento of October 3, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) website of the company. Retrieved April 14, 2013.
- ↑ The Exhibition of Higer Bus in Paraguay press release from china-buses of January 22, 2009.
- ↑ Scania Higer A80 passed the European Rollover Test website eobus from July 9, 2008. accessed on April 14, 2012.
- ↑ Higer-introduction ( memento of March 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Internet site on the history of the manufacturer. Retrieved April 6, 2013.
- ↑ Higer signed the strategic cooperation agreements with Angola dealer ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Press release of March 25, 2013. Accessed April 14, 2012.
- ^ Great Potential Market of China Buses in Africa ( Memento of October 3, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Press release of June 20, 2011. Retrieved on April 7, 2013.
- ↑ Higer donates Primary School in Tibet. ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Press release dated December 22, 2010. Accessed April 6, 2013.
- ↑ Company Info website Made-in-China . Retrieved April 14, 2013.
- ^ Scania Touring ( Memento from April 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Internet presence of the Scania Group . Retrieved April 1, 2013.
- ↑ Scania Higer A30 ( Memento from April 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Internet presence of the Scania Group. Retrieved April 14, 2013.
- ↑ Higer Oushang Pickup to release ChinaTrucks from May 19, 2011. Retrieved April 14, 2013.
- ↑ 325 Higer Buses break the Guinness World Record. From eobus.com on August 24, 2009. Retrieved April 6, 2013.
- ↑ RegioBus Hannover hopes to be included in the Guiness Book of Records. On Bahn-Info from July 1, 2009. Accessed April 6, 2013.
