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Zhengzhou Yutong Group Co., Ltd.

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legal form Corporation
ISIN CNE000000PY4
founding 1993
Seat Zhengzhou , Henan Province , People's Republic of China
management Tang Yuxiang ( CEO )
sales 33 billion RMB
Branch Vehicle construction , mechanical engineering , real estate management
Website www.yutong.com

Yutong buses in Lianjing with LNG -drive

Zhengzhou Yutong Group Co., Ltd. ( Yutong for short ) is a Chinese company and the world's largest manufacturer of buses .

history

The company's history began in 1963 in Zhengzhou , a transportation hub in Henan Province , with the establishment of a bus repair workshop ( Zhengzhou Bus Repairing Factory ). This resulted in the Zhengzhou Yutong Bus Co., Ltd. in 1993 . ; it was listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange in 1997.

In 2002, with the help of a corporate cooperation agreement with the German manufacturer MAN , the internationalization of Yutong was accelerated; the products were increasingly adapted to international standards and global sales opportunities improved.

The first access to the European market took place in 2005 through a joint venture with the Icelandic coachbuilder Guðmundur Tyrfingsson Ltd. and the joint establishment of Yutong Eurobus . Since then, sales activities in Northern Europe have been coordinated from the company's headquarters in the southern Icelandic town of Selfoss .

In the years that followed, Yutong increasingly expanded its own developments: In 2008, the first city bus with an aluminum body was manufactured. In the same year, the production capacity was expanded to 105 buses per day. In 2009, the systems for cathodic dip painting supplied by the German Dürr AG were put into operation.

Yutong double-decker city buses in retro style in the Macedonian capital Skopje

Notable orders were the sale of 5,348 buses to Cuba in 2007, the largest single order in the company's history, and the delivery of more than 200 eye-catching Yutong double-decker buses for the Macedonian capital Skopje in 2011 . These are retro-style replicas of the Routemaster buses that were typical of the London cityscape until the end of the 1960s .

With 47,474 buses sold, Yutong became the global market leader for the first time in 2012, ahead of King Long with 33,924 vehicles and Daimler AG with 32,888 buses. One of the major export successes in 2013 was the sale of 1,000 city buses, mainly running on natural gas, to Venezuela. In 2013 the company consolidated its global market leadership with 56,068 buses sold. Since then, the company has increased its activities in the European Union; Market entry in Great Britain and Ireland began in October 2013.

Manufacturer of electric and hybrid buses

Yutong manufactures plug-in hybrid buses from 10 to 18 m in length and battery buses from 6 to 12 m in length. According to the company's own information, Yutong has a market share of 40% for plug-in buses and 20% for battery buses (as of 2015).

In August 2015, the Yutong ZK6125FCEVG1 fuel cell bus received market approval for China. The fuel cell of this 12-meter-long solo bus is fed with hydrogen, which is stored in eight 140-liter gas bottles. These buses have a range of 300 km without refueling.

Two months after the market launch of the Yutong E6 battery bus in spring 2015 , 3,000 orders had been placed. The 6 m long bus has twelve seats and can carry 36 passengers. With a fully charged battery, the bus can travel 140 km under normal road conditions. The battery has a capacity of 60 kWh and is charged within one hour by charging with direct current and a charging voltage of 380 V. With fast charging, ten minutes are enough to get the bus ready for another 60 km.

At the beginning of November 2015, the 12 m long Yutong E12 , a fully electric low-floor battery bus, was presented as a novelty . Since the start of production of electric buses, 8,000 battery buses have been sold and are used in more than 140 cities.

Group structure

The Zhengzhou Yutong Group Co. Ltd. is listed as a public company on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange (Stock code: 600066). The turnover in 2013 was 33.058 billion RMB ; this corresponds to an increase of 9.1 percent compared to the previous year. Several subsidiaries are affiliated with the company:

  • The core company is Zhengzhou Yutong Bus Co., Ltd. (short: Yutong Bus ). At the Zhengzhou Yutong Industrial Park, there are 1,120,000 m 2 of production capacity for 310 buses per day. In addition, another production facility for buses with hybrid and other environmentally friendly drives is under construction in the Eastern International Logistics Park of Zhengzhou . After completion, this should have an annual capacity of 30,000 vehicles. Yutong Bus offers a wide range of all bus types: The spectrum ranges from medium-sized and large coaches to city buses (also as articulated buses up to 25 meters in length, also for BRT systems and double-decker buses ) to special vehicles such as airport apron buses , prisoner transporters , mobile homes , ambulances , Buses with blood donation facilities and school buses .
  • The second most important area of ​​the company is Zhengzhou Yutong Heavy Industry Co., Ltd. , also in Zhengzhou, with around 3,500 employees. The company, which initially mainly supplied wheel loaders and bulldozers for the People's Liberation Army , is now one of China's major manufacturers of construction machinery and mining equipment. The production of pile driving machines , crawler cranes and mastic asphalt pots is of particular importance . Yutong Heavy Industry claims to be China's largest manufacturer of garbage compactors and pile foundation machines . The products are exported worldwide.
  • The company also includes Zhengzhou Lvdu Real Estate Group Co., Ltd., founded in 2002 and integrated into the group as a subsidiary in 2008 . ( Real estate services ) and Zhengzhou Jingyida Auto Parts Co., Ltd. (Auto parts and automotive suppliers ).

Picture gallery

Web links

Commons : Yutong Busse  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Annual turnover of Yutong Group exceeds 33b yuan website 4-traders from February 27, 2014. Accessed March 2, 2014.
  2. ^ About Yutong 2001 Company website. Retrieved April 18, 2013.
  3. ↑ Zhengzhou Yutong Group company portrait at BusToCoach . Retrieved April 27, 2012.
  4. ^ Yutong double decker appears on the street of Skopje ( Memento of September 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Company press release . Retrieved March 29, 2014.
  5. ↑ Chinese oust Daimler from first place Focus report from March 14, 2013. Accessed on April 21, 2014.
  6. ↑ Over 1,000 Yutong buses with Allison transmissions for Venezuela ( Memento from April 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Press release from the transmission manufacturer Allison Transmission from October 21, 2013. Retrieved on April 6, 2014.
  7. ↑ Group Introduction Own information from the manufacturer. Company website. Retrieved April 24, 2014.
  8. ↑ Yutong powers into the UK with the Paccar MX11 Engine Press release from the British importer PelicanDAF of October 9, 2013. Accessed April 19, 2013.
  9. ↑ Yutong new energy bus sales expected to reach 13,600 units in 2015 Press release Yutong (English) from November 6, 2015. Accessed November 29, 2015.
  10. ↑ Yutong ZK6125FCEVG1 fuel cell bus passes homologation in China Press release Yutong (English) from August 31, 2015. Accessed November 29, 2015.
  11. ↑ Yutong E12 full electric bus press release Yutong (English) of November 11, 2015. Accessed on November 29, 2015.
  12. ↑ Overseas market ( Memento from February 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Website of Yutong Heavy Industry Co., Ltd. Retrieved March 16, 2014.