Metal parts supplier, Castertech Fundição e Tecnologia has acquired Fundituba Indústria Metalúrgica from Grupo Stedile, extending its production capacity and flexibility of parts casting production to around 65,000 tons a year.

Ford Brasil Ltda, on Saturday, October 31, 2020, announced the completion of the sale of the São Bernardo do Campo plant to Construtora São José, a company specializing in logistics projects, and FRAM Capital, a company with extensive experience in resource management.

October saw two BYD electric city buses start research trials in Salvador, Bahia State, Brazil’s oldest city, on a 13.2km route between Pirajá Metro Station and São João Island.

Márcio Querichelli, head of Iveco Latin America and responsible for South American markets, says the company is forecasting a recovery of truck sales to pre-pandemic volumes in Brazil in two to three years’ time in 2023.

An interview in November 2020 with Karl Deppen, president of Mercedes-Benz do Brasil and CEO for Latin America with T&BB’s South American correspondent, Jose Secco, shared some important details about the Brazilian market as well as providing an outlook for CV demand over the coming years.

It is the largest industrial complex of CNH Industrial’s brand operations in Latin America, where it develops and produces light commercial vehicles, trucks, bus chassis and defence vehicles.

This order is made up of 310 single buses to be built on Volvo’s B8R rear engine chassis for operating on the zonal lines of the city’s integrated transport system.

Marcopolo recorded net revenue of BRA836.5m in the third quarter of 2020, which was a reduction of 22.6% compared with BRA957m in the same period in 2019.

The Board of Directors of the Ministry of Education of the Brazilian Government, on January 6, 2021, has indefinitely stopped the competitive tender for the supply of 6,900 buses under the Caminho da Escola Program (Federal School Bus Programme).

Volkswagen Caminhões e Ônibus in December 2020 passed an export milestone of 5,000 commercial vehicles delivered to Colombia; the official 5,000th unit to be exported was a Constellation 19,360 V-Tronic truck.

The launch follows ZF’s acquisition and integration of Wabco and its subsidiary companies including Wabco do Brasil Indústria e Comércio de Freios Ltda.

Brazilian bus body manufacturer Caio, in partnership with Volvo Group Mexico, has supplied 87 new low floor Euro VI city buses as part of a renewal programme of the Passenger Transport Network (RTP) fleet in Mexico City.