kscarbel2 Posted May 30, 2017 Share Posted May 30, 2017 MAN Truck & Bus Press Release / May 26, 2017 The highest quality in assembly expertise proven time and again // Anniversary vehicle customer: traditional brewery Stiegl On 9 May 2017, MAN celebrated a proud anniversary at its site in Steyr: since the first TGL/TGM-series pre-production vehicles rolled off the line in late 2004 and series production got fully under way for all series models in 2006, exactly 200,000 vehicles have been produced. "We are particularly proud that our customers have placed their trust in the superior quality of our products, and especially the TGL/TGM series, for over a decade. For us, this enormous number, which we are celebrating reaching today, is not only the proof, but above all the motivation for our work," explains Thomas Müller (Dipl.Chem.Ing.), Production Manager at MAN Truck & Bus Austria, Steyr plant. The customer and future operator of this anniversary vehicle is the Austrian traditional brewery company, Stiegl. Dr. Mario Partl, Head of Truck Sales and Internal Service Operations at the MAN Sales Company in Austria, handed over the symbolic ignition key to Thomas Gerbl (MBA), Managing Director of Stiegl, and highlighted the value of the longstanding partnership between MAN and Stiegl. Thomas Gerbl (MBA) stressed that the superior quality and reliability of MAN's products was a significant criterion and key element of the partner-ship. "Above all, our two companies are characterised by the link they cre-ate between awareness of tradition and future-oriented sustainability." Mr Gerbl expressed his sincere thanks again to the production team assembled before him and then welcomed them to the ceremony with a round of drinks from the Stiegl brewery - alcohol-free of course! Stiegl is also a partner of the consortium CNL (council for sustainable logis-tics), which, in autumn, will receive nine TGM trucks with electric drive, pro-duced by MAN at its plant in Steyr, for field trials. Production of the lightweight and medium-sized trucks continues to be the core activity at the Steyr site, although, since mid-2015, expansion has been taking place to incorporate new competencies, in the fields of special vehicle construction, plastic part paintwork and electromobility. . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kscarbel2 Posted May 30, 2017 Author Share Posted May 30, 2017 The truck plant in Steyr, Austria has produced superb trucks since 1920. Though acquired by MAN in 1990, it continued to build Steyr Type 92 trucks thru 2003, AND Steyr trucks, engines, transmissions, axles and suspensions continued to be built in China. Even today, modernized Steyr components are still in production in the Middle Kingdom. The Type 91 and 92 trucks were virtually indestructible. . . . . 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chu613 Posted May 30, 2017 Share Posted May 30, 2017 I've seen them around while growing up back home. Didn't think much of them until Roman and Dac Romanian trucks started to be equipped with Steyr engines in the 90'. Drivers really liked those engines I see Canadian army still using some around here. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeamsterGrrrl Posted May 30, 2017 Share Posted May 30, 2017 Steyr provided the basis for the U.S. military's favorite medium truck, the LMTV AKA FMTV. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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