Subsidiary Mercedes-Benz do Brazil is to start immediate deliveries of a total of 607 Mercedes-Benz trucks to two major customers. Of this total, 357 medium-duty Mercedes-Benz Atron are going to the state of Minas Gerais in south-eastern Brazil and 250 Mercedes-Benz trucks of the Atron and Axor type are being supplied to the leasing company Ouro Verde from the southern state of Paraná.

Large orders like these provide additional momentum to the positive trend in sales of Mercedes-Benz trucks in Brazil. Until the third quarter of this year, Daimler Trucks increased its truck sales to 29,975 units in Brazil. This represents a sales increase of 46 percent over the previous year.

The 357 new Mercedes-Benz Atron dumper trucks earmarked for the Minas Gerais state will be used for maintenance and expansion of the road infrastructure within the framework of the municipal development aid program “ProMunicípio”.

Meanwhile, the 250 new Mercedes-Benz Atron and Axor trucks will be used by the Ouro Verde leasing company to expand its range of fleet vehicles for use by companies from different industries. Ouro Verde had already purchased 80 Mercedes-Benz trucks at the beginning of the year.

‘These two major orders are the result of the strong commitment of our team in Brazil and the continuous investments in our products and production locations’, said Philipp Schiemer, president of Mercedes-Benz do Brasil and CEO of Daimler Trucks Latin America.

In October, the company announced that it will invest one billion Brazilian real from 2014 to 2015. The financing will be used mainly for research and development in new products and innovative technologies, as well as for the process optimization and modernization of the two production plants in São Bernardo do Campo (state of São Paulo) and Juiz de Fora (state of Minas Gerais).