Ten years after the opening of the development and testing centre (EVZ) in Woerth am Rhein, Mercedes-Benz Trucks will spend another EUR50m at the 'centre of competence' for commercial vehicle development work. A "symbolic" ground-breaking was held at the site today (15 June).
for the expansion of the local development activities, Prof Dr Uwe Baake, Head of Product Development Mercedes-Benz Trucks, Gerald Jank, Head of Mercedes-Benz Trucks Operations, Dr Ingo Ettischer, Head of Mercedes-Benz Wörth Plant, and Thomas Zwick, Chairman of the Works Council of the Mercedes-Benz Wörth Plant, together with Dr Volker Wissing, Minister for Economics, Transportation, Agriculture and Viticulture of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate, Dr Fritz Brechtel, District Administrator of the Germersheim district, and Dr Dennis Nitsche, Mayor of Wörth, celebrated the official start of construction.
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An additional office and workshop building, a new building housing test benches, as well as parking for test vehicles will be built on the site by 2020. At present, some 200 employees from vehicle testing and related units work in the EVZ. Once expansion is completed, it is expected about 350 employees will be there.
"By pooling the development activities in Woerth, the largest assembly plant of Mercedes-Benz Trucks, further gains in importance in the global production network and offers additional attractive jobs at the location that are secure in the long term," Daimler said in a statement.
EVZ has rough-road tracks and different roadway profiles that replicate roads worldwide. It also has a break-in track with inclinations of up to 49%, used for functional testing, office, workshop and service spaces with test benches for component testing.
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