MAN Truck & Bus has significantly expanded its global logistics center in Salzgitter, Lower Saxony. After just one year of construction, the new hall section has entered operation as planned, enlarging the site by approximately 53,000 square meters to a total of 235,000 square meters. The expansion marks an important step in ensuring the global spare parts supply for the growing vehicle fleet with alternative drives and in implementing the strategy for sustainable mobility.
With the investment, MAN is accounting for the ramp-up of its zero-emission technologies. In the future, up to 12,000 specific e-components, including batteries and other components for
electric trucks and buses, will be stored in Salzgitter. According to the commercial vehicle manufacturer, several hundred of the company's eTrucks are already operating across Europe, having covered over two million locally emission-free kilometers. MAN is also strongly represented internationally in the bus segment: over 2,000 fully electric buses are currently in use worldwide. By 2030, every second newly delivered MAN vehicle is expected to be electric.
A key component of the cross-brand Traton Modular System (TMS)
In addition to electromobility, the expanded logistics center also considers new technologies such as hydrogen drives and the highly efficient diesel platform "PowerLion," which
will be available from the 2025 model year. Furthermore, the logistics center will become a key component of the cross-brand TRATON Modular System (TMS) in the future. This modular system enables the long-term storage of spare parts for all types of drives and up to 15 years after the end of series production.
The official opening of the new hall took place in the presence of MAN's Production Director Michael Kobriger and Salzgitter's Mayor Frank Klingebiel.
Michael Kobriger: "Our state-of-the-art logistics center supplies our customers and workshops in around 120 countries with parts for our vehicles at maximum speed from Salzgitter.
Ensuring secure and rapid customer supply is the top priority of our spare parts logistics. This applies to millions of existing vehicles as well as to current models with alternative drives. For this, we need more space and state-of-the-art logistics systems in addition to our highly qualified employees. This also strengthens MAN in Lower Saxony and makes the Salzgitter location future-proof."
Approximately 800 employees are employed at the Salzgitter site. More than 220,000 different spare parts will be stored in the future—ranging from small parts to complete driver cabins—which can be delivered worldwide to customers and workshops in the shortest possible
