Output at Jacobs Vehicle Systems’ Brno plant passes 50,000 units in first year of operations
By Jim Gibbins - 1st October 2020
USA / Czech Republic – Jacobs Vehicle Systems Europe, a subsidiary of Jacobs Vehicle Systems Inc (JVS) of Bloomfield, Connecticut, USA and manufacturer of heavy-duty diesel engine retarding and valve actuation systems, recently celebrated shipping its 50,000th engine brake manufactured from its European facility near Brno, Czech Republic, which it opened a year ago in September 2019. Jacobs Vehicle Systems currently supplies all of Daimler’s European orders from Brno.
The Brno facility is JVS’s third production location as the company continues to expand its global capacity; the other two being in Bloomfield, Connecticut and Suzhou in Eastern China. To date, Jacobs has supplied over eight million engine brakes to heavy-duty engine manufacturers and commercial vehicle manufacturers worldwide.
