Scania drives in

Heavy trucks and bus maker Scania Commercial Vehicles, a subsidiary of Germany-based Volkswagen AG, will set up an assembly plant in India, its second largest outside Sweden in terms of volume. The firm will set up the facility in Bangalore with an initial capacity of 2,000 trucks, 1,000 buses and 1,500 engines. The engines will be made for industrial and marine applications and can be used in escalators and generator sets, among other things. Scania has six such centres in Taiwan, Malaysia, Dubai, South Africa, South Korea and Russia. It has two engine plants in Stockholm and Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Scania is present in India in partnership with the engineering company Larsen and Toubro Ltd (L&T), which has been selling its mining trucks since 2007-08. The company has sold around 600 mining trucks in this period.
Scania will test-run some heavy haulage trucks and luxury buses for city and inter-city routes in India by September. Its heavy trucks are in the range of 220-730 horse power; the company will decide which ones to bring to India after the tests. The Indian market in the category of vehicles with a load capacity of 25 tonnes and above - was 35,000 in 2009, according to Scania.