Mercedes-Benz Trucks Plans New Plant in the Czech Republic – Cheb Site to Strengthen Production Network

Mercedes-Benz Trucks is pushing ahead with the expansion of its European production network and is planning a new plant in the Czech Republic. At the Cheb site, trucks are to be assembled in future in order to optimise cost structures and better manage the increasing complexity in production.

The commercial vehicle manufacturer Mercedes-Benz Trucks is further expanding its European production network and is increasingly focusing on the Czech Republic as a location. Specifically, the company is planning to establish a new assembly and manufacturing plant in Cheb in the Karlovarský region.

The aim of the investment is to strengthen the competitiveness of the existing production network while making cost structures and production complexity more efficient. The plant in Wörth am Rhein in Germany will continue to play a central role and will remain the largest and leading plant within the network.

According to CEO Achim Puchert, the new site in Cheb is intended to help secure value creation and jobs in Wörth in the long term and to enable further investment at the German location.

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The planned plant in Cheb will take over parts of the current production programme from Wörth as well as from the Turkish site in Aksaray. Overall, the parent company Daimler Truck intends to invest a low to mid three-digit million-euro amount in the new site over the coming years. The key factors behind the location decision are, in particular, favourable logistical conditions and competitive cost structures in the Czech Republic.

At the new plant, both vehicles with conventional and alternative drivetrains will be assembled. In this way, the company is responding to the increasing technological diversity in the commercial vehicle sector. The planned production capacity is around 25,000 vehicles per year. More than 1,000 new jobs are to be created—not only in production, but also in areas such as IT, quality control and maintenance.

Czech Republic’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry, Karel Havlíček, sees the investment as a significant contribution to the country’s economic development. The project creates new opportunities for Czech companies, promotes technical education and strengthens economic independence. It opens up new prospects particularly for the structurally weaker Karlovy Vary region by creating skilled jobs and advancing economic diversification.

The new plant in Cheb is set to complement the existing European production network in the future. While Wörth serves as the central competence centre for Mercedes-Benz trucks with body construction, painting and final assembly, the plant in Aksaray remains an important production site for models such as Actros and Arocs. In Molsheim in France, the focus, by contrast, is on customer-specific modifications in the “Custom Tailored Trucks” segment as well as on the growing defence business.

With the planned expansion in the Czech Republic, Mercedes-Benz Trucks is therefore sending a clear signal for the further development of its European production system while also responding to the increasing demands of the industry.