Scania Plans Dubai Assembly Line

Swedish commercial vehicle manufacturer Scania is tapping the potential of the Gulf Co-operation Council's (GCC) heavy vehicle market with a new assembly facility in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Scania has broken ground on the Dubai-based plant, which will assemble trucks from semi-knocked down (SKD) kits, adding locally-sourced components. The plant will become operational in H208, with the capacity to assemble 1,400 vehicles per year, mostly in the construction vehicle segment where Scania sees high demand on the back of infrastructure investments. A second expansion phase will take the plant's capacity to 2,000 units at a later

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