Truck production started at the former Volvo factory in Kaluga. TASS reports this. The name of the company is JSC AMO.
“The institution is ready to reach full capacity, including the entire production cycle. “As we expected, 2023 was a turning point in the relaunch of automakers in the region,” he said.
According to the production plan, it was noted that the company should produce 2 thousand Russian trucks under the Next brand in 2024.
The Swedish company announced that it has stopped sales and production of Volvo trucks in Russia announced February 28, 2022. Russia accounted for approximately 3% of Volvo Group sales. The capacity of the plant in Kaluga was 15 thousand trucks per year; Production moved here in 2009, six years after the start of vehicle production at the plant in Zelenograd. By April of the same year, the company switched from machine assembly to full-scale production technology.
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