Global truck and trailer components, The SAF-Holland SE, reported group sales in the 2019 financial year of EUR1,284.2m, a slight decrease of 1.3% from EUR1,300.6m in 2018.

The Benalu Group at Solutrans 2019 in Lyon held last November announced a group turnover of EUR170m and that it now employs more than 1,000 people in France and Poland.

The Krone Group (a producer of agricultural equipment and on-road trailing equipment (ie commercial vehicles - containers and container chassis, swap bodies and semi-trailers)) last month released record figures for Group operations for the year ending July 31, 2019.

In the 2018/19 business year ending March 31, 2019, Europe’s largest trailer builder, Schmitz Cargobull AG built around 63,500 vehicles employing 6,500 people, a record number for the company; this compares with exactly 61,256 units produced in 2017/18 with 6,400 employees and with 57,000 units and 5,700 employees.

Truck body and trailer builder, Empresas Randon SA reported strong results for the first half of 2019.

Randon Implementos, the trailer and specialty equipment division of Randon SA has exported its first tank trailer for USD60,000 to the Ivory Coast for transporting diesel.

Trailer and truck body builder, Librelato S.A, last month announced orders for 202 vehicles for delivery this year; 180 units from Fontanella Transport and 22 from Transportadora Peregrina.

Brazil’s largest trailer and components supplier, Randon SA, reported revenues of BRA6.0bn (USD1.54bn) in 2018, a 43.4% rise on revenues of BRA4.2bn.

Kögel Trailer GmbH, a semi-trailer manufacturer and sister company of Humbaur GmbH, recorded revenues of EUR530m in 2018, an increase of 17% on EUR450m in 2017.

The Krone Group reported record revenues exceeding EUR2.1bn for its financial year 2017/2018 ending on July 31, 2018 and which also marked a significant increase over the previous year’s result of EUR1.9bn.