Schmitz Cargobull adds two box body lines to factory in Lithuania
By Heather Rose - 31st January 2019
Germany / Lithuania – Schmitz Cargobull AG (SCB) of Horstmar, Germany says investments during 2017/18 year ending March 2018 and on-going into 2018/19 on technology and capacity expansion at its plant in Panevezys, Lithuania (where it builds a range of refrigerated and dry box van structures for trucks and trailers) will see daily output levels triple from April 2019.
As well as investment in the foam production facilities for Ferroplast panels at Panevezys, it has invested in two additional production lines for manufacturing ‘lightly-insulated’ S.KO box semi-trailers, M.KO truck box bodies and M.KO assembly kits. These went into pre-series operations in October last year, said SCB, adding: “The plant’s technical capacity will triple from around 10 units a day in 2017 to 30 units from April 2019 onwards.”
