Scania AB

Scania AB is a manufacturer of commercial vehicles (primarily trucks and buses) and it is headquarters in Södertälje, Sweden. Its main competitor is another Sweden-based Volvo Trucks and Volvo Buses (both from Gothenburg).

It was established in 1911 as a result of the merger between Södertälje-based Vabis and Malmö-based Maskinfabriks-aktiebolaget Scania. In 1912 it opened its first office was in Södertälje. Scania was listed on the NASDAQ OMX Stockholm stock exchange from 1996 to 2014.

It is fully owned by the Germany-based Volkswagen Truck and Bus GmbH (a subsidiary of the Volkswagen Group) since 2015.

Production sites
It primarily exports to the United Kingdom and Ireland through right hand drive versions, and also the second European plant opened in 1964 located in Zwolle, Netherlands. In 1992, Scania opened the third European plant was in Angers, France.

Its overseas plant was opened in 1962 in São Bernardo do Campo, Brazil. This CIS assembly plant was opened in 2010 in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

Since 2003, Scania and Hino formed a strategic partnership in Japan to manufacture trucks made by Hino before shut down in 2011. In 2012, Hino began transfers of some Scania trucks to newly formed Scania Japan Co., Ltd. in Tokyo, with the inaugurated first plant opened in Japan.

In 2015, Scania was also the first company from Södertälje to open its first plant in the Philippines.