All set for Euro VI: start of series production for the cleanest regular-service diesel bus
Montag, 14.Mai 2012A new chapter in the history of regular-service bus operations: the first series-production Citaro to meet the Euro VI emissions standard left the production line at the EvoBus plant in Mannheim today.
With the start of series production, Mercedes-Benz once more takes the lead in the field of eco-friendly buses. Based on pioneering diesel technology, [...]
Daimler opens new Production Plant in Chennai for Indian BharatBenz Trucks
Montag, 23.April 2012Last week Daimler inaugurated his new 160 ha manufacturing plant in Oragadam near Chennai, by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Selvi J. Jayalalithaa together with Dr. Dieter Zetsche, Chairman of the Board of Management Daimler AG.
The plant is one of only three Daimler truck plants worldwide to combine truck assembly and components production at one [...]
Offensive in the Compact Segment Continues: Start of new Mercedes-Benz Plant in Hungary
Montag, 2.April 2012Daimler started production at its new passenger car plant in Kecskemét last Thursday. Passenger cars are now rolling off the assembly line in Hungary less than four years after the location decision was made in summer 2008. Dr. Dieter Zetsche, Chairman of the Board of Management of Daimler AG and Head of Mercedes-Benz Cars, Plant [...]
President Obama at Daimler: US President visits production plant of US vehicle subsidiary Daimler Trucks North America in North Carolina
Donnerstag, 8.März 2012US President Barack Obama visited the production plant of Daimler’s commercial vehicle subsidiary Daimler Trucks North America (DTNA) in Mount Holly, North Carolina, earlier today. He addressed the economic challenges facing the USA before a select audience and informed himself about DTNA’s vehicle portfolio.
The Mount Holly plant is part of DTNA’s network of commercial vehicle [...]
More than One Million A-Class Models of the Current Generation Delivered to Customers
Montag, 6.Februar 2012Mercedes-Benz has handed over more than a million A-Class models of the current generation to customers worldwide since the market launch in autumn 2004.
Dr. Joachim Schmidt, Executive Vice President Mercedes-Benz Cars Sales & Marketing: “With the A-Class, 15 years ago Mercedes-Benz established the premium compact car segment. We already sold over one million vehicles [...]
Sales trend remains positive: Mercedes-Benz Heading Toward New Production Record
Freitag, 9.Dezember 2011Following last year’s production record, Mercedes-Benz is again heading toward a new all-time high. The brand expects to produce more than 1.25 million units in 2011 – representing another record result in the company’s 125-year history.
“Mercedes-Benz is going on the attack,” says Dr. Wolfgang Bernhard, member of the Daimler Board of Management, Manufacturing and Procurement [...]
Daimler Invests more than EUR 1.5 Billion at its Main Mercedes-Benz Powertrain Plant in Germany
Freitag, 25.November 2011In view of numerous production start-ups for new vehicles and a positive demand picture, Daimler is investing several hundred million euros in 2011 and 2012 respectively in its main Mercedes-Benz powertrain plant in Stuttgart-Untertürkheim.
In all, more than 1.5 billion euros are to be invested in the extension and conversion of various parts of the [...]
Daimler to Produce Additional Model at the Mercedes-Benz Tuscaloosa Plant (USA)
Samstag, 22.Oktober 2011Daimler will further expand its U.S. plant in Tuscaloosa, Alabama: as of 2015, an entirely new Mercedes-Benz model will roll off the production line as its fifth product.
The plant has been the traditional production site of the brand’s M-, GL-, and R-Class SUVs and will also build the C-Class for the North American market [...]
1,000 new jobs at the Mercedes-Benz plant in Wörth
Samstag, 13.August 2011All the signs now point to growth at the Mercedes-Benz plant in Wörth. The facility’s order books are full and the new Actros, which will begin rolling off the line in Wörth at the end of September, is generating an increase in production volume and therefore a greater need for personnel.
The production program has [...]
World premiere of a bus in Mannheim: The new Mercedes-Benz Citaro is here!
Montag, 23.Mai 2011With sales of over 31,000 units during 13 years of production, the Mercedes-Benz Citaro is the most successful regular-service bus of all time.
Now, the vehicle’s success story advanced to the next round, when the all-new Mercedes-Benz Citaro regular-service bus was presented at the Mannheim bus plant to more than 150 European journalists for the [...]
New engine manufacturing facility at Mannheim plant: international benchmark for precision, efficiency and quality
Freitag, 25.März 2011Quality without compromises is the key focus of the new engine manufacturing facility at the Mannheim production plant. For the production of the new OM 47x engine family, every detail of the manufacturing process has been optimised.
The three areas of foundry, machining and assembly work perfectly together like the cogs of a well-oiled wheel. [...]
Change of management in manufacturing: Dr. Eberhard Haller, head of the Mercedes-Benz plant in Sindelfingen, retires
Donnerstag, 16.Dezember 2010Dr. Eberhard Haller, head of the Mercedes-Benz plant in Sindelfingen, is retiring at the end of December after more than seven years as the head of Daimler AG’s largest passenger car site in the world and nearly 30 years with the company.
Dr. Willi Reiss will be appointed as Dr. Haller’s successor as head of [...]
New driving simulator taken into operation in Sindelfingen: Investment in cutting-edge technologies
Mittwoch, 6.Oktober 2010Prof. Dr. Peter Frankenberg, Baden-Württemberg’s Minister of Science, Research and Art, and Dr. Thomas Weber, Member of the Board of Management responsible for Group Research and Head of Development, Mercedes-Benz Cars, ceremoniously opened the new Daimler AG driving simulator in Sindelfingen with a virtual excursion. The first milestone in the expansion of the Mercedes-Benz Technology [...]
Electric mobility takes centre stage: Production start Mercedes-Benz A-Class E-CELL at Rastatt plant
Mittwoch, 15.September 2010Following the start of production of the smart fortwo electric drive and the B-Class F-CELL by the end of 2009, the company is now gearing up the production of its third electric passenger car: the Mercedes-Benz A‑Class E-CELL.
With the electrified A-Class, Daimler aims to gain experience concerning the integration of battery-electric drives into four-seated [...]
Mercedes-Benz delivers over 1 million C-Class cars of current production series to customers
Montag, 2.August 2010Around one million customers have bought a vehicle of the current C-Class production series since the market launch of the C-Class sedan in March 2007 and of the estate model in November 2007.
“The C-Class is our best-selling production series and therefore of great importance for Mercedes-Benz,” said Dr. Joachim Schmidt, Executive Vice President Sales and [...]
1965: The first truck completely assembled at the Wörth plant came off the production line
Dienstag, 27.Juli 2010Acquisition of the premises was hardly spectacular, meriting a few marginal lines in the Annual Report of 1960: “In the Wörth area near Karlsruhe industrial premises have been purchased that lie favourably close to the South German parent plants and on which construction of a production facility for major assemblies will begin in the near [...]
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