JAC Motors will make trucks in Bahia

A month and a half after starting work on the plant in Camaçari (BA), JAC Motors Brazil already Announces change of plans. The investment up to now provided $ 900 million will be extended in R $ 100 millions to House also a line of production of small trucks. The productive capacity, before 100 thousand cars a year, will be increased in 10%.
The first truck to be made in Bahia is the T140, the category of so-called Urban Vehicle (VUC) with load capacity of 1.5 to 3.5 tons. The model began to be imported from China at the end of last year and from 2014, when the plant starts operations, will become national.
"In future, We also produce trucks with 6 to 8 tons of cargo capacity," says Sérgio businessman Habib. He is the Chairman of SHC, which has 66 percent of the shares of JAC Motors Brazil, in partnership with the Chinese automaker, which holds the remaining shares.
According to Habib, the VUCs market-cargo vehicles that can run on metropolitan centers with constraints for larger trucks--should grow in the coming years, given the need demonstrated by many cities to adopt the restriction.
Habib said that the extra investment for the production of the T140, today sold $ 69,900, there is high because it will be used the same painting and assembly lines of cabin that will make cars. "Only the final assembly line will be separated," he explains.
The JAC will make Bahia the hatch and sedan versions of the next generation of J3, auto will have prices from R $ 34 thousand. "We set in the coming months if we started operations with the cars or the truck, but the period between one and another will be short." For now, it is maintained the forecast of creating 3.5 million jobs in the factory.
Motor and transmission are made in Brazil by Cummins and ZF, respectively. Both are already suppliers of JAC in China. The T140 market dispute with models like Hyundai HR, Kia Bongo and Iveco Daily.
According to Habib, of the total of $ 1 billion to be invested in the factory, r $ 300 million will come from the two partners and the rest of the financing being waives all such claims with banks, including Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento Econômico e Social (BNDES).