Daimler India Commercial Vehicle commenced production of BharatBenz buses at its Oragadam manufacturing unit from 13 July 2015.
The 28-acre facility will manufacture buses with gross vehicle weight of 9, 16 and above 16 tonne range. Daimler will manufacture front-engine buses for short distance travel and rear-engine buses for inter-city transportation. The plant have an annual capacity to manufacture 1500 buses.
The Oragadam plant is the only Daimler Trucks plant worldwide to produce trucks, buses and engines with three brands Mercedes- Benz, Bharat Benz and FUSO under one roof.