16 | AutoPartsAsia | AUGUST 2017INTERVIEW
MAN Trucks India
Is Customer-Centric :
Joerg Mommertz
MAN Trucks India Private Limited, the wholly- owned subsidiary of MAN Truck & Bus
AG, Germany, has been operating in the country for the last 12 years, in the first six years
through a joint venture with Force Motors and then independently. The company has its
headquarters in Pune. The state-of-the-art manufacturing facility at Pithampur, Madhya
Pradesh, makes everything for the truck with an average localisation of about 82 percent.
It makes tippers for off-road and construction, haulage for regular and over dimensional
cargo, and special application trucks such as fire tenders, garbage compactors, concrete
mixers, boom pumps, tip trailers and bulkers. The product range for India is developed at
the MAN Trucks R&D centre in Pune. The trucks made in India are also exported to African
and other Asian markets. So far the company has made more than 25,000 vehicles, and
about 40 percent of them was exported. Joerg Mommertz, CMD, MAN Trucks India, told
T Murrali of AutoParts Asia that “uptime is a high focus in our business approach. We
are very customer-focused and oriented; this mind-set is very important in a country like
India where, we believe, customers are getting more professional and demanding with
high expectations from the manufacturers. We have set ourselves a target to contribute 10
percent to our total global volumes, in the next four years.” Edited Excerpts: