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  • Kecskemet_Merc
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    Mercedes-Benz starts work on new plant in Hungary

    2018-06-12T17:25:24Z

    Germany’s Mercedes-Benz Cars has broken ground on a €1 billion ($1.18 billion) ‘full-flex' plant at Kecskemét in Hungary.The full-flex concept – the model for all the OEM’s future car assembly lines – is designed to allow for flexible production of cars with a wide variety of body and drive variants, ...

  • Mercedes Benz Sprinter
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    Kuehne + Nagel to support production of Mercedes-Benz vans in South Carolina

    2017-08-23T15:02:30Z

    Kuehne + Nagel (KN) will begin a multi-year contract this autumn to provide production logistics services for Mercedes-Benz Vans’ new assembly line and manufacturing facility in Charleston, South Carolina.The logistics provider will be taking care of all production logistics for the plant, including receiving, inventory management and delivery of parts ...

  • Mercedes-Benz bei The 146th Open – Royal Birkdale 2017: Innovativ aus Tradition
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    Mercedes-Benz names Untertürkheim as fourth battery production facility

    2017-07-18T17:01:36Z

    Mercedes-Benz has revealed that its Untertürkheim plant in Germany will be its fourth global battery manufacturing facility.Currently, the six-facility plant in the Neckar Valley, near Stuttgart, produces internal combustion engines, transmissions and axles. The OEM already plans to develop the plant to manufacture electric vehicle powertrain components, however, including electric ...

  • Audi TechDay Smart Factory
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    Different digital paces

    2017-07-18T14:58:15Z

    The headline above might well have read ‘industry and logistics 4.0’, ‘the industrial internet of things’, ‘factories of the future’, ‘smart supply chains’ or ‘manufacturing 2025’.Or we might have turned to one of a growing number of acronyms used to outline the car industry’s future, like Mercedes-Benz Car’s CASE or ...

  • Mercedes Sclass autonomous
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    Mercedes-Benz S-Class drives itself from assembly line to loading area

    2017-07-05T14:32:57Z

    The potential for self-driving cars in finished vehicle logistics has been highlighted by the recent start of Mercedes-Benz S-Class production in Sendelfingen, Germany, where a newly built car drove itself off the assembly line to a loading area about 1.5km away.Cameras, together with radar and ultrasonic sensors, worked in conjunction ...

  • Feature

    Mercedes-Benz destaca o valor do abastecimento localizado na fábrica dos EUA

    2017-06-01T13:12:37Z

    A Mercedes-Benz destacou o valor de uma base de suprimentos local, após uma reunião com sua base de suprimentos no Alabama na semana passada.O Supplier Forum 2017 envolveu discussões estratégicas com fornecedores selecionados para o futuro programa de produção da fábrica de Tuscaloosa.A empresa vem produzindo modelos SUV lá desde ...

  • Mercedes-Benz Werk Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA
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    Mercedes-Benz highlights value of localised supply at US plant

    2017-05-31T17:08:54Z

    Mercedes-Benz has highlighted the value of a local supply base, following a meeting with its suppiers in Alabama last week.The Supplier Forum 2017 involved strategic discussions with selected suppliers for the future production programme at the Tuscaloosa plant.The company has been producing SUV models there since 1997 and it was ...

  • Generation EQ
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    Mercedes-Benz’s Rastatt plant to produce compact EQ model

    2017-05-31T15:29:25Z

    Mercedes-Benz has announced that its Rastatt plant in Germany will produce the compact class of the EQ range of electric vehicles.The 25-year old facility is the lead plant worldwide for the production of Mercedes-Benz compact cars. More than 300,000 A-Class, B-Class and compact SUV GLAs rolled off its production lines ...

  • Montage der C-Klasse Limousine im Mercedes-Benz Werk Iracemápolis im Großraum Sau Paulo, Brasilien // Assembly of the C-Class Saloon at the Mercedes-Benz plant Iracemápolis in the metropolitan area Sa
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    Mercedes-Benz pushes ahead in Brazil despite downturn

    2016-03-30T17:15:59Z

    Mercedes-Benz has started production at a new 600m reais ($165m) plant at Iracemápolis in Brazil, about 170km north west of the capital São Paulo. The plant, which was officially opened last week, is making the C-Class Saloon and, from this summer, the GLA compact SUV.The new plant follows the carmaker's ...