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Mercedes-Benz plant ships 750,000th truck assembly kit

August 14, 2019 by David Edwards

The Mercedes-Benz plant at Wörth has shipped its 750,000th truck assembly kit.

Called the CKD Centre, for “Completely Knocked Down”, the Wörth facility in Germany sent the 750,000th truck kit to South Africa.

The item was packed in a 40-foot sea container for its journey overseas. It will be shipped to Rotterdam before it embarks to Port Elizabeth, in South Africa, its destination country.

After being transported to East London, it will be assembled at the local Mercedes-Benz plant into the complete truck: a white Actros 2652 LS 6×4, which is expected to be delivered to its owner in mid-July.

Since more than 50 years, the CKD Center in Wörth stands for the successful implementation of its original concept of “shipping quality”.

Since 1966, the center sends high-quality individual truck components produced at the site to the international assembly plants. The kits are assembled reliably and flexibly at the foreign locations in accordance with Mercedes-Benz’ high-quality standards.

The Mercedes-Benz truck kits, which have been delivered since the founding of the CKD Center to a total of 60 countries around the world can consist of up to 2,500 individual components.

In order to keep operations, processes and handling as efficient as possible, sets of four identical trucks are usually packed together, which in most cases also fit into four overseas containers.

Such a four-packed set consists of a total of 48 packages and weighs between 50 and 70 tons, depending on the design. The re-usable packaging is individually produced in the CKD Center from cardboard and wood to guarantee resource savings.

The experienced production team from Wörth plays an important part in safeguarding these strict quality requirements all over the world.

The specialists in Wörth regularly support colleagues at foreign plants with production start-ups, for example, as part of special training programs. Thus, as the CKD Center of competence Wörth plays a key role in the international Mercedes-Benz Trucks Production Network.

Kit truck

Since 1966, the CKD Center of competence significantly helps to tap important growth markets for Mercedes-Benz trucks from Wörth.

Due to its high degree of flexibility, the CKD Center is always able to meet customers’ requirements at short notice in other markets around the world.

By now, the CKD Center uses this model in an exceedingly flexible and reliable manner to supply parts kits for Mercedes-Benz trucks to numerous markets like South Africa, Russia, Saudi Arabia or Malaysia, in accordance with customers’ specific requirements.

Also, the planned return to the Iranian market will henceforth be covered with parts kits from the Mercedes-Benz Wörth plant.

The local assembly in the markets allows meeting the demands of truck customers, which vary significantly by region, rapidly. Customers also benefit economically from local production due to the significantly lower import duties at many places.

50 years of know-how

CKD production at the Wörth plant started in 1966 with around 500 kits. The first truck kits were sent to Iran. In 1969, the CKD Center produced more than 11,000 CKD kits for the first time.

Since 1978, parts kits are assembled at the CKD packaging hall with container loading. Today, the CKD Center in Wörth employs about 500 people.

The current portfolio of the CKD Center in Wörth includes the Mercedes-Benz Actros and Arocs in the fields of road and construction site transport.

The special Unimog and Zetros vehicles are also shipped as kits. In the course of digitalization, the IT infrastructure in the CKD Center is currently being converted to latest technologies so it can be controlled, picked, packed and scanned paperless and using handhelds in the future.

Because it’s Wörth it

The largest truck assembly plant of Mercedes-Benz Trucks was founded in Wörth am Rhein in 1963 and produces the Mercedes-Benz Antos, Arocs and Atego trucks – as well as the Actros, the world’s most successful heavy-duty truck, for more than 20 years.

The Mercedes-Benz special trucks Econic, Unimog and Zetros are also built here. Up to 470 trucks customized according to customer requirements leave Wörth every day. Customers in over 150 countries value the “quality made in Wörth”.

The facility on the Rhine is the center of competence for the global Mercedes-Benz Trucks production network.

The Mercedes-Benz plant in Wörth also has more than 50 years of experience in CKD production, and delivers vehicle kits to numerous overseas markets for local final assembly.

About 10,300 employees, the Mercedes-Benz Wörth Plant is the second-largest employer in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate.

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