MAN Truck & Bus to invest EUR 130 million for the expansion of its plant in Krakow, Poland

At the laying of the foundation stone (from left to right): Michael Kobriger, Executive Board Member for Production and Logistics MAN Truck & Bus SE, Dr Richard Slovak, Plant Manager MAN Krakow, and Alexander Vlaskamp. Chairman of the Executive Board MAN Truck & Bus SE.

• Celebratory ceremony with representatives from politics and business
• Around € 130 million investment in the site
• MAN CEO Alexander Vlaskamp: “The expansion of the Krakow plant is a further milestone in our transformation.”
• Production is set to start in the new building in September 2022

(PRESS RELEASE) MÜNICH, 21-Jan-2022 — /EuropaWire/ — MAN Truck & Bus, one of Europe’s leading industrial players in transport-related engineering, has announced an expansion plan of its plant in Krakow, Poland where the company plans to invest some EUR 130 million in the site. The foundations have just been laid in a celebratory ceremony and the company expects to have the production site extended by around a third in terms of area and fitted out as a volume balancing plant for HGVs by September 2022. The expansion will allow the company to produce some 300 vehicles and cabs with employees working in three shifts. To guarantee the sustainability of the site, a new bio-energy source will ensure that the plant is CO2 neutral in the future.

“The expansion of the plant is a key building block in our transformation. Our changes to the production network will make us significantly more competitive in these challenging times. In Krakow, we are creating an extremely flexible and variable site, which will allow us to manufacture everything from our light to heavy goods vehicle ranges on one production line,” explained MAN CEO Alexander Vlaskamp.

This work will just about treble capacity at the Krakow plant. After the expansion, Krakow will employ around three times more staff than before, creating some 1,500 extra jobs at the Polish site. The area of the extended plant will increase from 24 to around 41 hectares.

“Going forward, Krakow will be a highly efficient site and will play an even more important role as a volume-balancing plant. Around three quarters of all MAN trucks and HGV cabs will be assembled here in the future. The ‘Truck Modification’ section is also to be built in Krakow, where our trucks can be individually tailored to our customers’ requirements,” said Michael Kobriger, MAN executive board member responsible for production.

This expansion work will see the construction of a new 26,000 m² hall for cab production and another 10,000 m² hall for the Truck Modification Center. This will enable MAN to offer the entire truck range with maximum quality in Krakow and the main plant in Munich, where space will be used for mixed production of conventional and electric trucks. Krakow and Munich will be a pair of strong partners in the truck network.

The company and works council agreed on these and many other measures in April 2021, as part of MAN’s transformation process. The whole package of measures is aiming for an increase in MAN revenue of up to € 1.7 billion. This should provide the company with the latitude it needs to be able to make targeted investments in its future.

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SOURCE: MAN SE