MAN Auto-Uzbekistan
MAN truck on the stamp of Uzbekistan, 2011
The MAN AUTO-Uzbekistan Company is a joint venture
between the German MAN Nutzfahrzeuge AG and the
Uzbek OJSC UZAvtosanoat. The joint venture was
founded in August 2009. Subsequently, the employees
at the plant were trained by the MAN staff to ensure a
proper assembly of the vehicles and to and increase
the theoretical knowledge of the workforce. The
consolidation of the contractual joint venture took
place on 4 September 2009 at the Oqsaroy Residence
in Tashkent.
Agents of the parties were on the Uzbek side the
President Islam Abdug'aniyevich Karimov and the
chairman of the UzAvtosanoat Mr. Ulugbek
Rozukulov. The German side was represented only by
the CEO Håkan Samuelsson.The assembly of the
vehicles began on the day when the joint venture
contract was signed. SamAuto provides their
assembly plant in Samarkand. One of the currently
assembled models is the MAN TGA which is delivered
as a CKD Kit from Germany. Another model is the
identical truck called MAN CLA which is made by the
Indian MAN Force Trucks Pvt. Ltd.
This units are also delivered as a CKD kit.
According to plans of MAN they want to build 500
up to 1000 units annual.For the sales of the
vehicles, UzAvtosanoat had established a
separate dealer network.The production capacity
is expected to rise later to more than 2000 units.
MAN have plans to introducing the Indian CLA
model version in a modified version especially for
the Central Asian market called the MAN CLE. So
the target markets for the Uzbek manufactured
models is the Uzbek domestic market for itself and
all markets of the CIS states.
Some used vehicles are exported to Uzbekistan
for the strategic
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