Scania back to produce in two shifts and will invest more R $1.1 bi until 2020

HANNOVER-the Scania factory in Brazil, located in São Bernardo do Campo, in the greater ABC, producing two shifts last month reported this Wednesday, 19, the automaker's President for Latin America, Christopher Podgorski, during the Hanover, in Germany. The pace was not registered from 2013, the year in which the market of trucks and buses grew one last time before the crisis. Until then, the factory operated in one shift only. The operation in two shifts concerns the final Assembly of the vehicles. Machining lines and cabin, for example, depending on the seasonality, operating in three shifts. The President of Scania reported that investment plan of R $2.6 billion in Brazil between 2016 and 2020, have already been disbursed R $1.5 billion. Lack, therefore, invest R $1.1 billion in the two years remaining. The contributions are mainly to product development and distribution network. The result of the presidential election, he assured, does not preclude investments. "With what we already have, I don't see the possibility of delay or cancel investments," he said. But he added that, regardless of who wins, every entrepreneur wants to "horizon, predictability and stability". "Anyone who provide these things but, with what the polls are showing, the situation is complicated," he said. Today, 70% of your Scania is intended for production in Brazil for the external market, despite the growth of the internal market. That's a record for the company and for the industry. This is because the Sao Bernardo factory produces trucks like the ones that are assembled by the company in Europe. Then, when the European market is heated and the European factory cannot supply other regions, the brazilian factory is thrown. That's what has happened three years ago, when the European market grew sequentially. "And they are heading for the fourth straight year of growth," said Podgorski. Able to meet demands of regions of Asia, Africa and Latin America, Scania has been little affected by the crisis in Argentina, the main destination for other automakers installed in Brazil. Scania of São Bernardo will finish the year 2018 with 27000 production units, of which 30% are for the Brazilian market, 35% for other countries of Latin America and 35% for other regions of the world. The main destination is Russia, which must receive 5600 units in 2018. For Argentina will be sent 2000 units, even last year's level. * The reporter travelled at the invitation of the Anfavea Association of automakers installed in Brazil