Seven football fields for spare parts

MAN is focussing on strong growth in zero-emission technologies. This also has an impact on logistics: in the coming years, up to 12,000 specific e-mobility components such as batteries will have to be kept in stock as spare parts - because more and more electric vehicles with the lion logo are on the road worldwide. Several hundred eTrucks from MAN alone are already travelling through Germany and Europe with zero local emissions, in addition to more than 2,000 fully electric buses around the world. And the trend is rising: by 2030, around 50 per cent of all newly delivered MAN vehicles are expected to be electrically powered.

Salzgitter's Lord Mayor Frank Klingebiel and Michael Kobriger, MAN Truck & Bus Board Member for Production and Logistics, were present at the opening ceremony for the expansion. ‘Our state-of-the-art logistics centre supplies our customers and workshops in around 120 countries with parts for our vehicles from Salzgitter at top speed,’ said Kobriger at the opening of the new construction phase. ‘The top priority of our spare parts logistics centre is to supply customers safely and quickly. This applies to millions of existing vehicles and also to the current models with alternative drive systems. To achieve this, we need more space and state-of-the-art logistics systems in addition to our highly qualified employees. This also strengthens MAN in Lower Saxony and makes the Salzgitter site fit for the future.’