China’s Foton Motors to build truck factory in Brazil

Chinese automotive company Foton Motors, one of the world’s largest truck manufacturers, plans to invest US$500 million in building a factory in Brazil, according to a report from newspaper Folha de São Paulo.

The newspaper said that the company’s officials at the beginning of last wee visited the state of Goiás, where they looked at potential locations for the factory, and that the state of Pernambuco was another potential location for the Chinese factory.

The factory is expected to start operating in 2014, and will initially focus its production on so-called light goods trucks of 3, 6 and 9 tons.

Founded in August, 1996 and based in Beijing, the Beiqi Foton Motor Co. Manufactures light and heavy goods vehicles, agricultural tractors and a variety of machinery. In 2010 is set up a partnership with Daimler AG to manufacture Auman branded trucks in China.

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SCANIA will extend production in Brazil

Scania kicked off to enlarge the unit of St. Bernardo. Yesterday, the company’s president in Brazil, Sven Antonsson and Luiz Marinho, mayor signed an agreement ceding the field from the municipal administration, which will used to install the new paint shop of the company. The truckmaker plans to invest R$ 60 million in new shopfloor. In return of the land, valued at US$ 13,5 million according to the secretary of the municipal government coordination, Tarcisio Secoli, the company will double the Anchieta highway between Avenida José Odorozzi and Avenida Robert Kennedy. ‘The doubling will cost  around R$ 16 million for the automaker, said Secoli. The schedule for delivery of the road construction is in about one year. The start of construction of the plant extension will be within this month. One of Scania’s objective with the new paint shop is the improvement of  working conditions for theemployees, enhancing ergonomics in the workplace.
In March, the president of the ABC Metalworkers Union, Sergio Nobre, aware of Scania’s project, expressed his concern with the case and said the paint shop is an area that most harms the health of workers.