Scania will enter the Indian bus and coach market for the first time when Busworld India ? a trade fair focused on developments in the Indian bus industry ? opens its doors on February 1, 2013 in Mumbai. Scania Metrolink, a complete new range of buses and coaches for intercity and tourist services, will be launched at the fair. The Scania Metrolink for the Indian market will be manufactured at Scania’s industrial facility in Bengaluru.
Scania has been represented in the Indian market since 2007, when a partnership was initiated with Larsen & Toubro (L&T) for sales of trucks to the mining industry. In 2011, Scania established its own company in India in order to boost its presence in additional segments of the Indian commercial vehicle market. In late 2012, a range of trucks for heavy road haulage was launched.
In 2012, the company also began construction an industrial facility ? the Scania Regional Product Centre ? in an industrial area about 40 km east of Bengaluru, the capital of Karnataka state. Scania is investing a total of about SEK 300 m in the facility, which will also be the centre of the company’s commercial operations in the country.
The industrial operations will consist of final assembly of truck and bus chassis as well as bodywork and fitting out of complete vehicles. The head office of Scania’s Indian company, complete with a service workshop and a central parts warehouse, is also being built at the same site.
