The millionth vehicle has been built at Beijing Benz Automotive Co (BBAC). This joint venture between Daimler and BAIC has been in place for over ten years and undertook tremendous development over the last decade. Daimler Greater China ...
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Mercedes-Benz said it will manufacture the first production model of the new EQ product brand at its Bremen plant in Germany by the end of 2020. The production model will depend on the EQ show car – an electric vehicle with the ...
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Daimler is planning to invest about €500m in new engine production plant in the Polish city of Jawor. The company signed property purchase agreement for the site with its Polish partners. Jawor is the first production site of ...
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German luxury vehicles maker Bayerische Motoren Werke (BMW) has broken on a new plant in Mexico. Guests attending the official ceremony in San Luis Potosí included Rogelio Garza Garza, Undersecretary of Industry and Commerce at the ...
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Production of the long-wheelbase version of the all new Mercedes-Benz E-Class in China has started. The vehicles are flexibly manufactured at the Chinese joint venture Beijing Benz Automotive Co., Ltd. (BBAC) on the same line as the ...
German automotive firm Daimler is planning to invest about €500m in a new engine production facility in Poland. The facility, which will be situated in Jawor, around 70km west of Wroclaw, will be Mercedes-Benz Cars' first in Poland. ...
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German luxury automaker Mercedes-Benz has announced that it will invest €170m for expansion and modernisation of its Kuppenheim press shop. The investment will also create 200 additional jobs at the press shop. Kuppenheim press ...
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Daimler has begun production of its 9G-TRONIC nine-speed automatic transmission at its Sebes factory in Romania. The production is being handled by its Romanian subsidiary Star Assembly. The German luxury car-maker has invested about ...
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Mercedes-Benz has started local vehicle production in Brazil with a new plant in Iracemápolis. The site was officially opened in the presence of guests from politics, industry and society. Mercedes-Benz has started production at ...
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Mercedes-Benz introduces its V-Class multi-purpose vehicle (MPV) in China, which has been tailored to the needs of Chinese customers. Production at Daimler's local joint venture Fujian Benz Automotive Co. Ltd (FBAC) in Fuzhou has already ...
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Audi has announced to start production of its fully electric SUV in Brussels, the capital of Belgium, starting 2018. This move came as Audi's reshuffle of its operations across Europe as the company tries to focus on electric vehicle ...
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German automobile major Mercedes-Benz has deployed driverless transport trucks ‘carsets’ to supply assembly line staff with goods from logistics on Ludwigsfelde plant premises, doing away with the need for looking around during ...
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Schott announced that it will continue to invest in its pharmaceutical packaging plant in Itupeva, Brazil on the occasion of its 80th manufacturing anniversary in the country. The company said that it will supply locally-produced ...
Mercedes-Benz has started production of GLE Coupé at its plant in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, US. The GLE Coupé is a new series of Mercedes-Benz that incorporates characteristics of a coupé with SUV. The company said it ...
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Skoda has announced plans to expand the capacity of its Kvasiny plant and Vrchlabí plant in Czech Republic with an investment of CZK 7.2bn ($300m) and €25m respectively. The company has also signed a memorandum of ...
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