Mercedes-Benz

Commercial Vehicle

Employees: 83,396
Sales: 28.630 billion DM
Production (units): 590,060
Sales (units): 592,356

The diversified range of Mercedes-Benz commercial vehicles extends from vans with 2.5 tonnes permissible gross weight to 48-tonners, including a multitude of special versions, and thus meets virtually all requirements arising from all conceivable applications. In addition, there are urban and country buses and touring coaches, the Unimog range and industrial engines for a wide range of applications. The plants in Wörth (trucks) and Düsseldorf (vans) form part of an integrated production system together with the plants in Mannheim (buses, coaches and commercial vehicle and industrial engines), Gaggenau (Unimogs and commercial vehicle transmissions) and Kassel (axles). At Nutzfahrzeuge Ludwigsfelde GmbH (NLG), located south of Berlin, assembly of light-weight trucks from the LN2 series as well as of T2 vans began in February 1991 and September 1991, respectively. Since January 1994, NLG has been a wholly-owned subsidiary of Mercedes-Benz AG. From August 1994, Ludwigsfelde has been producing T2 vans only.

Important overseas subsidiaries are located in Brazil, the USA and Canada, Mexico, Argentina and South Africa. In Europe, the production plants in Spain and Turkey play a major role. The target of Mercedes-Benz, in their capacity as a full-line manufacturer and world market leader in the segment of trucks upwards of 6 tonnes gvw and of buses upwards of 8 tonnes gvw, is to further develop the international production network.

The Commercial Vehicle Division employs some 39,900 people in Germany, while the foreign production companies together have a workforce of approx. 41,300.

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