Mercedes will produce four models in the Moscow region. Mercedes from Peshek: why Daimler opens a new plant in Russia Automobile plant in d esipovo

The Ministry of Industry and Trade announced on Tuesday that a special investment contract had been signed for the construction of a Mercedes-Benz passenger car plant in the Moscow region.

The contract is for 9 years. Under its terms, Daimler will build a full cycle car plant (welding, painting, assembly) on the territory of the Esipovo industrial park with a design capacity of over 20,000 cars per year. The start of serial production is scheduled for 2019. Investments will amount to at least 15 billion rubles, according to the Ministry of Industry and Trade. More than 250 million euros are expected to be invested, Daimler said in a statement. Mercedes-Benz SUVs and E-klasse sedan will be produced. A source close to one of the parties adds that the new plant will produce three crossover models and one sedan.

The document was signed between the Russian Federation (represented by the Ministry of Industry and Trade), Mercedes-Benz Rus (100% subsidiary of Daimler), the government of the Moscow region, the Peshkovskoye settlement of the Solnechnogorsk district of the Moscow region, as well as involved parties - Daimler AG, Kamaz , "Daimler Kamaz Rus "(a parity joint venture, produces trucks in Tatarstan) and Mercedes-Benz Manufacturing Rus.

“Mercedes-Benz's investment in the creation of a local assembly of passenger cars speaks of the strategic decision of the global automaker and its faith in the Russian market, regardless of the short-term situation,” comments Alexander Morozov, Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade. “With local production in Russia, we will be even closer to our customers and at the same time strengthen the global competitiveness of the Mercedes-Benz Cars division,” says Markus Schaefer, member of the Mercedes-Benz Cars division. Their words are quoted in the reports of Daimler and the Ministry of Industry and Trade.

In 2016, 36,888 Mercedes-Benz passenger cars were sold in Russia (minus 11%, the whole market decreased by the same amount, according to the AEB).

For several years Daimler has been deciding on the site for its plant, negotiations were also going on with Moscow and St. Petersburg. The choice of the Moscow region is connected with the proximity to the largest regional market in Russia - the Moscow one - and the readiness of the government of the Moscow region to provide the investor with the maximum possible benefits, explains the source of Vedomosti.

The officials promise to "facilitate the implementation of the project by providing measures of state support and creating a preferential tax regime." In particular, the company will have a zero rate on property for the duration of the contract, says a person close to one of the participants in the investment contract. But under the conditions for obtaining a zero rate of income tax, which can be claimed by participants in investment contracts, Mercedes-Benz Rus does not fall under the conditions for generating most of the proceeds not from production, but from retail sales, the source says. Representatives of the Ministry of Industry and Trade and Mercedes-Benz Rus did not comment on this.

Daimler's competitors have already started production of premium cars in Russia, but in a large-knot manner: the VW group assembles Audi at the facilities of its plant in Kaluga, and BMW at the facilities of Avtotor. Local assembly allows you to participate in government purchases and government programs, Daimler also wants to use this, says a person close to one of the participants in the investment contract.

Sedan production Mercedes-BenzE-class at the new enterprise is planned for 2019. A little later, the production of SUVs GLE, GLC and GLS will be launched. Investments in the new enterprise, which will be called "Moskovia", will amount to over 250 million euros (about 16 billion rubles). A company that will be responsible for production was created (Mercedes-Benz Manufacturing Rus (MBMR), headed by German Axel Benze.

The Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation Denis Manturov, who was present at the ceremony of laying the first stone, noted that the arrival of such a large investor and his implementation of plans for the production of new cars in Russia speaks of the stabilization of the Russian market and the growth of consumer confidence.

The Governor of the Moscow Region, Andrei Vorobyov, assured that the forges of personnel for "Moskovia" have already been prepared: these are the "Moscow Region" college in Klin and the Ramensk Road Construction Technical School. Employees will be invited to the plant at the end of 2017, and residents of the Moscow region will receive an advantage in hiring.

The passenger car plant will be located in the Esipovo industrial park on a land plot of about 85 hectares. A full-cycle production will be created here, including the localization of such operations as welding, painting and assembly of cars. On the territory of the plant there will be warehouses, parking for cargo trailers, and logistics will also be carried out. Automatic self-propelled carts will run around the enterprise, delivering components to sections of the assembly line throughout the workshop.

The Moskovia plant will become part of a single global network covering all production sites of the Mercedes-Benz brand, which allows remote access and, if necessary, reprogramming of equipment and robots.

• The company has been trying for several years to localize the production of passenger cars in Russia. The process was accelerated by the signing of a decree by Dmitry Medvedev in 2014.
• In February of this year, the governor of the Moscow region that the long-awaited contract with Mercedes was nevertheless signed.
• Another one is on its way, the construction of which was announced by the governor of the Moscow region. The brand is not named, but it is known that a certain Japanese manufacturer showed interest.

A photo: Mercedes-Benz and Maxim Kadakov

Today, in the Esipovo industrial park near Moscow, the first stone was laid in the foundation of the Moskovia plant, where the German company is going to produce cars. The work of recruiting and training personnel for the new enterprise will soon begin to boil.

After years of deliberation, Daimler announced this winter that a plant in Russia will still be built. Now, just four months after the official announcement of intentions, the groundbreaking ceremony for the future enterprise took place.

The plant will be built under the so-called special investment contract (SPIC) within the framework of the RF Government decree No. 708 dated July 16, 2015. The essence of the SPIC is that it is between the Russian government and the investor, while the latter guarantees the investment of money (at least 750 million rubles) and the creation of jobs, and the Russian side promises him incentive measures and stable business conditions. This means that the Daimler concern will not be included in the industrial assembly program, which is used by the majority of "foreign" car factories in Russia.

Layout of the future Daimler plant

For the new plant, the government of the Moscow region allocated the territory of a former military town in the Solnechnogorsk district of the Moscow region, which is about 40 kilometers northwest of the capital (closer to the main sales market, not otherwise). Now this area is called the Esipovo industrial park. The site is located in the middle of a forest a couple of kilometers from the Leningradskoe highway. Now there is only bare asphalt, but the development of an area of \u200b\u200b85 hectares has already begun: a road has been laid, construction equipment is being pulled up. Workshops for welding and painting of bodies, an assembly workshop and warehouses will be built here. The total area of \u200b\u200bbuildings is 95 thousand square meters. In addition, the government has already reserved additional area in the neighborhood in case the plant expands.

At the site of future buildings, there are still such columns

Daimler will invest in the construction of the Russian enterprise 20 times more than the minimum norm - 15 billion rubles (over $ 250 million at the current exchange rate). The number of personnel will be 1000 people, not counting the alleged subcontractors and future suppliers, which, however, are not yet available. By the way, the joint venture Daimler KAMAZ Rus and KAMAZ itself (Mercedes-Benz trucks have been produced in Naberezhnye Chelny since 2010) became the co-founders of the newly created company Mercedes-Benz Manufacturing Rus, which will own the future Russian plant.

The capacity of the plant in Esipovo has not been disclosed, but, according to previously announced unofficial data, it will amount to about 20-30 thousand vehicles per year. At the same time, Daimler emphasizes that production will be very flexible. Components will begin to come from Europe and America: all logistics chains come to Germany, and from there the containers will be sent to the central warehouse in St. Petersburg. Although the ever-busy Leningradskoye Highway does not look like the best channel for supplying the plant.

The start of production is scheduled for 2019. Esipovo will start producing Mercedes E-class sedans, mid-size GLC crossovers, as well as full-size GLE and GLS SUVs (of the next generations). Last year, about 20 thousand buyers found these four models. The pet of Russian officials, the Mercedes S-class, is not planned to be produced in Russia. Actually, the Russian-assembled cars will not be designed exclusively for public procurement: most of them will be available for sale.

Let us remind you that Daimler was the last of the “big German three” to decide on the production of passenger cars in Russia. Audi cars are assembled in Kaluga using the SKD screwdriver method, and BMWs are produced at the Kaliningrad Avtotor using the MKD fine-knot technology. Moreover, localized cars of these brands are sold at great discounts and therefore are popular. The main question about how the prices for Mercedes will change after the start of the Russian assembly remains unanswered.

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In the Solnechnogorsk region, in Episovo, 40 kilometers from Moscow along the Leningradskoye highway, the construction of a large plant for the production of wheeled vehicles of JSC Mercedes-Benz RUS has started.

The location of the future plant is due to the fact that the main and main warehouse is located in the northern capital, and from there containers with components will arrive at the plant in the Moscow region.

The work began in June 2017, and its completion is scheduled for April 2019, then in the first half of the year the cars will be lowered off the assembly line. A large-scale construction was developed on an area of \u200b\u200b84.4 hectares, where in a couple of years workshops and warehouses for the assembly of cars will be located.

The total area of \u200b\u200bthe plant during its construction may change, in such a case the Moscow Region government keeps an additional territory in reserve.

Upon completion of the construction of the plant in the Moscow region, 1.5 thousand jobs will be vacant.

Contacts of construction participants can be viewed

The customer of the project is Mercedes-Benz RUS JSC, the only official supplier of cars of the brand of the world company Mercedes-Benz in Russia. The general contractor is ESTA Kontrakshen LLC.