Traton R&D teams now under one group umbrella

Approximately 9,000 employees from the Research & Development departments of Scania, MAN, International, and Volkswagen Truck & Bus will collaborate under one Group R&D umbrella at Traton Group. They will join forces with around 3,000 colleagues in Brand Identity Development (BID) teams at the individual companies to ensure that work continues on brand-specific innovations.

Niklas Klingenberg. (Photo: Traton Group)

“The forthcoming closer cooperation in Research & Development will make us both quicker and more efficient, enabling us to develop more precisely targeted innovations and bring products to market earlier,” said Niklas Klingenberg, the Traton executive board member responsible for Research & Development in the Traton Group. “This approach means we can avoid duplication of work and, at the same time, consistently tailor our product portfolio optimally to the needs of different customers across all our brands. Every single engineer and talent in our organization is indispensable in ensuring the bright future of the Traton Group. Our success depends on their expertise.”

By repositioning Research & Development, the company said the entire group will capitalize on its Traton Modular System to a far greater extent than before. The overall focus will be on developing modular components that can be used by different brands, while the goal is for the same technology to serve various performance steps and meet different customer requirements.

The company said that the cooperation between Group R&D and Brand Identity Development (BID) is expected to accelerate the development of the Traton Modular System to deliver sustainable, efficient and connected transportation solutions to the market.