Mercedes Benz trucks and buses The move started from the Virrey del Pino plant, where the star brand produced trucks and bus bodies More than seven decadestowards town property Zarate Where you create your new factory.
The last unit left the La Matanza production line on Thursday and was used to record a video featuring the company’s president. Raoul Parsisat, He gets into the truck and drives it to Zarate, on the property on Route 9 where a logistics center already operates and where the new truck plant is being installed (see video). According to sector sources, the new factory will be ready for operation Between April and May next year.
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Raul Parsisat, owner of Mercedes-Benz Trucks and Buses.
The Mercedes-Benz Truck & Bus division is a global subsidiary that was created four years ago, on December 1, 2021. Under the name Daimler truckthe German brand consolidated its heavy-duty vehicle division, while continuing to manufacture cars, SUVs and light-duty vehicles under the umbrella Mercedes Benz.
In Argentina, this business division has given rise to the same company since 1951 in the last four years. It will be divided into two companieseach with the name of its company, employees, and production lines, but all operating under one roof in the factory that bears the name Juan Manuel Fangio Industrial Center.
In the case of trucks and buses, it became the company tenant From Mercedes-Benz Argentina, it continues to manufacture trucks in La Matanza. Asilo and Atejo And the bus chassis Oh and oofwith 500 plant operators are under his responsibility. It also has another business unit called REMAN, which is dedicated to remanufacturing parts of the brand’s trucks and buses.
In 2022, the company acquired a 20-hectare property on Route 9, in Zarate, for $20 million, where it began construction of a 10,000-square-meter logistics center, which required the construction of another logistics center. 30 million US dollarsWhich was opened a year ago.
In parallel, construction of a new factory for truck and bus bodies began, with an additional investment of 60 million dollars Its installation has reached its final stages, according to sector sources.
At the same time, another important change took place at the La Matanza plant: Mercedes-Benz Argentina, a subsidiary of the German brand of luxury cars, SUVs and light vehicles, sold all its assets in Argentina to the local group. Prestige Autoheaded by the former Toyota Corporation Daniel Herrero. According to which the truck factory throughout 2025 will no longer be leased to Mercedes-Benz but to Prestige Auto. This lease expired on the first day of December.
“This new industrial center will allow us to produce with greater efficiency and technology,” Parsisat said.
The history of the Mercedes-Benz plant in La Matanza is linked to the beginning of the automobile industry in the country. It was inaugurated during Peron’s first presidency, in 1951, This was Mercedes-Benz’s first factory outside Germany, where most truck and bus bodies were produced for seven decades. In the 1990s, this production was suspended due to the specialization of plants in the context of the Mercosur formation (for almost two decades at La Matanza only the Sprinter was produced) until the assembly of heavy vehicles was resumed in 2011.