Truck maker Daimler India will unveil a new product in the 6.5-8.6 tonne segment exclusively for the export markets by September.
To this end, it has added a production line at the Oragadam plant, near Chennai, and the trial run for the truck has begun.
West Asia will be the focus market for the Fuso brand truck, Daimler India Commercial Vehicles managing director and CEO Erich Nesselhauf said here on Tuesday. The unveiling will take place in the July-September quarter, he said.
In Hyderabad, for the introduction of the company's new heavy-duty Bharat Benz truck range, he pointed to how the company expected the shares of exports and domestic sales to match three years.
The wholly-owned subsidiary of Daimler AG of Germany, which produces 9-49 tonne trucks, in 2016 sold 13,000 units in the country and exported 4,300 units to 30 countries, all of them in the southern hemisphere. It plans to export to 10 more countries, Sebastian Wahle, head-corporate communications said.
On the possibility of the new product being sold in India, the duo said it was likely next year.
