Scania and Higer inaugurated a new, state-of-the-art bus and coach factory in Suzhou, China. The new factory will exclusively build Scania Touring and Scania-Higer dual-branded high-end buses and coaches.

Scania and Higer started to cooperate in 2006. "Now, ten years later, the cooperation has grown into a successful project, although it has developed differently from what we first thought it would be. I think both parties expected that China would be the main market for our cooperation, but, as it has turned out, most of our joint products have been sold overseas. To date, we have sold close to 2,500 premium coaches to over 40 overseas markets and we are the leading exporter of premium coaches out of China," says Scania's President and CEO Henrik Henriksson.

In partnership, Scania and Higer are the leading exporter of premium coaches from China, and the new factory will strengthen that position, as well as sales of premium coaches in the Chinese market.

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