25 Facts About Scania AB

Scania AB is a major Swedish manufacturer headquartered in Sodertalje, focusing on commercial vehicles—specifically heavy lorries, trucks and buses.

Scania AB was formed in 1911 through the merger of Sodertalje-based Vabis and Malmo-based Maskinfabriks-aktiebolaget Scania AB.

Today, Scania AB has production facilities in Sweden, France, the Netherlands, Thailand, China, India, Argentina, Brazil, Poland, Russia and Finland.

Scania AB was listed on the NASDAQ OMX Stockholm stock exchange from 1996 to 2014.

Scania AB is a subsidiary of Traton, part of the Volkswagen Group.

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AB Scania AB-Vabis was established in 1911 as the result of a merger between Sodertalje-based Vabis and Malmo-based Maskinfabriks-aktiebolaget Scania AB.

In 1910, Maskinfabriks-aktiebolaget Scania AB had succeeded in constructing reliable vehicles, while Vabis was at the brink of closing down.

An offer from Per Alfred Nordeman, managing director of Maskinfabriks-aktiebolaget Scania AB, to steel manufacturer Surahammars Bruk, owner of Vabis, led to an agreement in November 1910, and in 1911 the merger was a reality.

Scania AB's logo was redesigned from Maskinfabriks-aktiebolaget Scania's original logo with the head of a griffin, the coat of arms of the Swedish region Scania, centered on a three-spoke bicycle chainset.

Scania AB-Vabis were to adopt the business model of Beers in their own overseas sales operations.

Scania AB-Vabis established its first full manufacturing plant outside Sodertalje, by building a new facility in Sao Bernardo do Campo near Sao Paulo, which was opened on 8 December 1962, and this was to set the standard for Scania AB-Vabis international operations.

In 1966, Scania AB-Vabis acquired ownership of a then valuable supplier – Be-Ge Karosserifabrik, who were based in Oskarshamn.

Also in Argentina, in 1982 the Series 2 was launched as part of the "Scania AB Program", consisting of the T-112 and R-112 trucks with two cab versions and different options in engine and load capacity.

In mid-1985 Scania AB entered the US market for the first time, starting modestly with a goal of 200 trucks in all of 1987 .

One year later, Scania AB was introduced on the stock exchange, which resulted in a minor change of name to Scania AB .

Scania AB then became the ninth marque in the Volkswagen Group.

All current trucks from Scania AB are part of the PRT-range, but are marketed as different series based on the general cab height.

Scania AB-Vabis was involved in bus production from its earliest days, producing mail buses in the 1920s.

Together with the rebranding in 1968, Scania AB re-introduced the front-engined CF range for customers in Sweden as a body-on-chassis product with the newly acquired SKV's former bodywork model "6000" on standard Scania AB chassis, but less than 100 were delivered until 1970.

In 2007, Scania AB returned to the complete coach market with the Finnish-built OmniExpress, which in 2011 even replaced the OmniLine, which had gone out of production in 2009.

In 1969, Scania AB teamed up with MCW to make the Metro-Scania AB single-decker for the UK market based on the BR110MH, and since 1971 the BR111MH chassis.

Since the mid-1990s, Scania AB started a long-lasting collaboration with Spanish bus builder Irizar to sell their coaches through Scania AB's global distribution network.

The agreement meant that Scania AB had exclusive distribution rights for all Irizar coaches in Northern Europe for many years.

In 2015 Scania AB opened its first Asian Plant in Bangalore, Karnataka, India.

In November 2020 Scania AB bought truck company Nantong Gaokai based in China's eastern city of Rugao to start the plan of vehicles production there.

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