Avtodom company, together with new partners, may start production of passenger cars at the former Mercedes-Benz plant in the Moscow region in 2024. In this respect informs Referring to Denis Manturov, head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade, RIA Novosti.
Answering a question about the timing of the start-up of the former Mercedes-Benz plant in Russia, he said, “I hope that my colleagues will complete their agreements with the selected industrial partners and start production next year.”
Manturov emphasized that passenger cars will come off the assembly line of the enterprise precisely because the equipment is adapted for the production of such cars.
Dealer holding Avtodom it happened Owner of the Mercedes-Benz automobile factory in Russia in April 2023. The amount of the transaction for the sale of assets was not sought. The German concern will receive an option to repurchase shares.
The Mercedes-Benz plant in the Esipovo industrial park in the Moscow region was opened in the spring of 2019, its production capacity is designed to produce 25-30 thousand cars per year in full cycle mode.
Previously reportedThat the Russian automaker AvtoVAZ resumed production of station wagons and Largus minibuses on August 14.