Scania is continuing to concentrate European component manufacture in its Swedish plants. This year, cab production in the Netherlands is being transferred to Scania Cabs in Oskarshamn, where approximately SEK850 million has been invested in a new finishing paint shop and a new cab fitting-out line.
Scania has invested about SEK1.5 billion in its Oskarshamn cab plant since the introduction of the 4 series trucks in the mid-1990s, representing one of the biggest single investments in production facilities in the company’s history.
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“We have invested in higher capacity, improved productivity, higher quality and lower environmental impact. Initially, we will have a production capacity of 50,000 cabs per year which, if required, can be increased to 60,000 without further outlay,” comments Anders Nielsen, plant manager at Scania Cabs in Oskarshamn.
Installed at a cost of SEK400 million, the new paintshop will provide Scania customers with a choice of solid or metallic topcoat as well as clearcoat finishes. The introduction of water-borne paints will yield an even greater reduction in environmentally hazardous solvent emissions, which were previously cut by 70% in 1995 when priming by the dry-powder method was introduced. Thus, solvent emissions from the final painting operation will be cut from 180 to 80 tonne/year, despite an increase in production volume.
Scania’s programme of concentrating its European component production in Sweden began in 1996, when the manufacturing of cab frames in Meppel in the Netherlands was relocated in Oskarshamn. From now on, the cabs for Scania’s entire European truckbuilding operation will be supplied from Oskarshamn.
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