The car manufacturer Mercedes sells his factory in the Argentine Virrey del Pino. The work, founded in 1951, is the oldest production of the former Daimler group outside of Germany. Buyer is a group of shareholders around the Argentine investor Pablo Peralta, owner of the Holding Society Grupo St, as reported by the Argentine daily “Norte” and the automotive portal “Arodarpost”, citing sources from the industry. The sales talks that the Deloitte management consultancy accompanied over six months. Mercedes did not comment on the plans on request. According to information from the “Börsenzeitung”, the car manufacturer in the work has ever greater problems gaining personnel. The factory was created more than 70 years ago on the green meadow, today the production is circled by poor quarters, the security situation is difficult. The work near the capital Buenos Aires is to be handed over with the workforce and a license for the manufacture of the small van sprinter by 2029 receive. After that, the new owner should switch the work to the production of its own models. In this context, speculation about possible cooperation with Chinese automobile manufacturers is speculated. Mercedes no longer produces the new and purely electric sprinter in Argentina, but is expected to produce it with a completely new concept in the United States. More on the topic of the world’s largest truck manufacturer Daimler Truck, the production of vehicles from the Mercedes-Benz brand at the traditional location in give up the coming years. The company opened a new logistics center in Zárate 80 kilometers north of Buenos Aires in December. There the manufacturer is investing $ 110 million in a new production that is due to go into operation in 2026. In the factory, buses and the truck models Accelo and Atego are to be manufactured in the so-called Completeely-Knocked-Down process. The vehicles arrive as a kit in the factory and are assembled. Daimler Truck attached the production in Argentina to the South American main work of the group in São Bernardo in Brazil, which produces the kits. 30 percent calculates. He referred to the need to modernize the vehicle park, the falling inflation and possible tax cuts. Trucks and buses are investment goods, said Barcesat. The falling inflation benefits business because this makes it easier to renew the fleet. Daimler Truck has a market share of 70 percent for buses and 38 percent in trucks in Argentina.
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