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TATRA and DAF Trucks Sign Cooperation Agreements

Relationship is a “Quantum Leap for TATRA “, says CEO Ronald Adams

KOPŘIVNICE (August 2, 2011) – TATRA, a. s., a traditional producer of world-famous heavy-duty vehicles for commercial and defence segments, announces that it has concluded agreements on cooperation with DAF Trucks N.V. Main focus of the cooperation is the supply of DAF manufactured engines and cabs for a new range of TATRA vehicles, as well as the distribution of these TATRA products by leveraging the dealer networks of the two companies. Also, as part of the agreements, DAF will acquire 19% of the shares in TATRA a.s.

“We began with the goal to design a new TATRA vehicle featuring the newest innovations of the unique TATRA chassis and applying the state-of-the-art DAF cabins and PACCAR engines. The project has resulted in a much wider cooperation, one that perfectly cultivates TATRA’s global strategy and at the same time adds to DAF’s dealer product portfolio. The fruit of this is an outstanding vehicle which responds to the needs of our most demanding customers and which will be delivered through a stronger and expanded TATRA dealer network,” said Ronald Adams, TATRA’s Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors.

“DAF has been consistently gaining market share in Europe and our class leading reputation for driver comfort, engine development and after sales support services has contributed significantly to that growth”, said Harrie Schippers, DAF Trucks president. “We are delighted that we are able to contribute to TATRA’s new, state-of-the-art truck, which also offers a great opportunity for our DAF dealers, as it expands their current product portfolio with an all-wheel drive, high mobility commercial truck.”

The new TATRA truck, designed and built in Kopřivnice, will gradually become TATRA’s flagship product in the commercial segments. With its innovative features, it will deliver uncompromising performance and unrivalled value to customers in construction, mining, forestry, oil & gas and other segments. With this standard-setting product and its availability through the enhanced dealer network, TATRA expects to enter new territories and reach thousands of new customers. To drive its global sales strategy, TATRA will leverage dealer networks of both DAF and TATRA and utilize special financing products available through PACCAR Financial Services.

TATRA CEO Adams said, “This relationship gives TATRA a quantum leap ahead in its commercial vehicle markets. It would take TATRA tens of years and many millions of Euros to build such a wide and successful network of dealers throughout Europe, not to mention the tens or even hundreds of millions of Euros which would have been required to develop such a world-class cabin and engine.“

Further details regarding the new TATRA truck will be available at www.thenewtatra.com.

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The German Tatra Register Deutschland published a real scoop in their latest magazin: the T158, featuring a DAF CF series cabin and proudly bearing the Tatra logo on its redesigned front.

Czech company Promet has acquired Tawesco, the daughter company of local truck manufacturer Tatra, for an undisclosed price. Tawesco supplies car parts to local OEM Skoda as well as to Benteler, Magna, Visteon, and Tatra. It specialises in components such as extrusions from iron and aluminium, as well as stamping instruments.

Promet supplies raw materials to steel mills and foundries in the Czech Republic as well as in neighbouring Austria, Germany and Poland. It also operates in the engineering sector.

Czech truck producer Tatra will assemble vehicles in Brazil and Saudi Arabia, and possibly also in Russia.  

CEO of the truck producer Tatra, Ronald Adams, announced on Tuesday that the company has signed strategic partnership deals to set up assembly lines in Brazil and Saudi Arabia for both military and civilian vehicles. The company is also in negotiations with Dutch truck producer DAF on establishing a partnership in Russia.          

Speaking on the first day of the 11th International Exhibition of Defense and Security Technologies (IDET) trade fair in Brno on Tuesday, Adams announced that the firm based in Kopřivnice, Moravian-Silesia region, concluded the contract to assemble Tatra trucks in Brazil three weeks ago, the server iHNed.cz reported.  More……

This month, Tatra will anoounce their new series of trucks with DAF CF cabins. Nine prototypes are around, being tested at the Polygon and nearby roads. The T 815 cabin production line will be dismantled, being designed for the huge numbers in the communist era, and not the present numbers. On a much smaller scale, for spare parts production, the T 815 cabins will be continued to be built in Prague.

Most probably other activities will stop soon as well. The Jamal, with a modified T 815 cabin, will be stopped as will be Tara’s engine production.

As foreseen for quite some time, Tatra will concentrate on its unique chassis concept.

For the home non-military market, Tatra hopes to built 350 new Tatra-Dafs (DAF-Tatras) to supply its dealers and atract interest from their old clientele, the roadconstruction people. Negotiations who will fince this batch of trucks are still going on, Tatra itself heavily debtened.

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Prague, Nov 21 (CTK) – It was the whole Czech government that unanimously approved all of the military orders that are now raising doubts for the alleged corruption of Martin Bartak as former deputy defence minister, Finance Minister Miroslav Kalousek (TOP 09) said yesterday. More……..