Scania is Continuing to Invest in Sweden
December 19 2014 - 4:19AM
Business Wire
A new priming painting shop is now being put into service at
Scania’s (STO:SCVA) (STO:SCVB) cab manufacturing facility in
Oskarshamn, Sweden. With the new paint shop, the technical capacity
in Scania’s European production structure will increase from 60,000
to 80,000 truck cabs annually. About SEK 400 million has been
invested in a lean and efficient production process.
Powder coating is a method with a very low environmental impact,
since no solvents are used. At Scania in Oskarshamn, this method
was introduced 20 years ago and has been continually developed and
refined ever since. At the new priming paint shop, only two percent
of the powder used is wasted.
The new priming paint shop is housed in a five-storey building
with a total area of 5,000 sq.m. At the production facility, cabs
are pre-treated through alkaline degreasing and rinsing, and after
that phosphatising, rinsing and drying occur before the primer is
applied in powder form and finally dried.
The construction of the new paint shop commenced in August 2012,
and the alignment of the machinery and processes started in
September 2014.
The cabs that are produced in Oskarshamn are delivered to
Scania’s three European final assembly plants, which are located in
Sweden, the Netherlands and France, and are included in the
company’s exports of kits from Europe for local assembly.
Scania in Oskarshamn has about 2,000 employees. The operations
are organized in five different workshops for sheet-metal stamping,
body-building, priming and final painting and final assembly.
Scania is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of trucks and
buses for heavy transport applications, and of industrial and
marine engines. Service-related products account for a growing
proportion of the company’s operations, assuring Scania customers
of cost-effective transport solutions and maximum uptime Scania
also offers financial services. Employing some 41,000 people, the
company operates in about 100 countries. Research and development
activities are concentrated in Sweden, while production takes place
in Europe and South America, with facilities for global interchange
of both components and complete vehicles. In 2013, net sales
totalled SEK 86.8 billion and net income amounted to SEK 6.2
billion. Scania press releases are available on
www.scania.com (http://www.scania.com/se)
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