OREANDA-NEWS. Production of Scania trucks in St. Petersburg will be transferred to the plant located near the "MAN Truck & Bus Production Rus", a joint production will begin in 2016.

According to the newspaper "Vedomosti", the union will be completed in September of the next year; the payback period will not exceed two years. The current director of the plant "Scania-Piter", Ino Muberg, will be the head of the new company. Its name and ownership structure were not determined, but probably it will be a parity joint venture Scania and MAN.

In the summer of 2015 Volkswagen Group announced that it is changing the corporate structure: 12 brands will be consolidated into four holdings. Brands MAN, Scania and VW Commercial Vehicles in the holding Truck & Bus will work together, but they will keep operational independence. The purpose of combining of plants in Russia – is the reduction of production costs, says a representative of MAN. The site, which is rented by "Scania-Piter", will not be used after the merger, but the conditions of the lease are met.

Power of "Scania-Piter" - is 7500 trucks per year (project cost 10 million Euros), MAN - 6000 units (investments - 25 million Euros). Vehicles are assembled by SKD method. Due to the decline in the market the enterprise is underutilized: "Scania-Peter", according to sources, could produce in 2015 about 300 trucks and about the same - the plant MAN. In January-August the truck market in Russia decreased by 45.4%, sales of Scania - by 58,2%, MAN - by 56.3%, according to the agency "AUTOSTAT". MAN site was chosen because there are can be painted frames and Scania receives them painted, explains the representative of MAN. Power of combined site will be 6,000 trucks per a year - 3000 units for each brand in average.

In 2015, to reduce the administrative costs there were combined parity joint ventures of KAMAZ and Daimler (for the production of trucks Mercedes-Benz and Fuso). Trucks of two related brands are produced in Russia by "Volvo Vostok" in Kaluga - Volvo and Renault.