Read about how the Scania Ferruform went from a manual workshop in the mid 1960's, to one of Scania's most fundamental factories today.Read moreAbout Scania
The order books open on a new generation of Scania’s robust, five-cylinder engines, as well as the first variants of the new G cab.Read moreAbout Scania
Scania launches Scania One, which provides a single digital environment to a host of connected services for fleet owners and drivers.Read moreAbout Scania
Scania launches Scania Growth Capital for investments in high-growth companies with strategic relevance to its ecosystem in the transport- and...Read moreAbout Scania
Scania introduces its new truck range, the result of ten years of development work and investments in the region of SEK 20 billion. Read moreAbout Scania
Apple Watch Scania Edition adds apps for tracking wearer’s health and fitness data to existing truck and fleet management functions.Read moreAbout Scania
From its founding as a privately owned wagon-building company to today’s connected vehicles, Scania has stood steady through hostile take-over a...Read moreAbout Scania
This addition to Scania’s engine range for marine applications incorporates proven XPI fuel-injection technology, allowing for unrivalled fuel e...Read moreAbout Scania
Scania?becomes the first company in?the automotive world?to adapt?the Wearables?technology trend with the Scania Black Griffin Watch.Read moreAbout Scania
The world’s most powerful truck – Scania’s R-series gets an even more high-powered V8 as its flagship model. With a torque level of 3,500 Nm an...Read moreAbout Scania
With some 45,000 truck drivers competing from all over the world, the Scania Driver Competitions 2010 consolidate the position as the world’s l...Read moreAbout Scania
At the Busworld exhibition, Scania launches the Scania Touring, a new coach built in partnership with Chinese bus bodybuilder Higer. Scania and...Read moreAbout Scania
Five years after its launch and with more than 200,000 vehicles delivered to markets across the globe, a new version of Scania’s top-of-the-line R...Read moreAbout Scania
Volkswagen and Investor reach an agreement under which Volkswagen acquires 134 million shares from Investor and the Wallenberg foundations. Volkswagen...Read moreAbout Scania
After nearly 20 years as a supplier of ethanol buses, Scania broadens its range of ethanol-powered vehicles for urban traffic with the world’s f...Read moreAbout Scania
Scania’s Driver Competitions becomes a truly global event, featuring some 63,000 professional truck and bus drivers from 40 countries in Europe, L...Read moreAbout Scania
A new Euro 5 engine platform is launched and Scania becomes the first truck manufacturer to achieve Euro 5 without exhaust gas aftertreatment....Read moreAbout Scania
Scania concentrates its European axle and gearbox production to S?dert?lje, Sweden, from the company’s units in Falun and Sibbhult. Axles and...Read moreAbout Scania
A new generation of buses and coaches is launched. The range comprises city and intercity buses and tourist coaches using diesel and alternative...Read moreAbout Scania
The Scania Driver Competitions concept expands to include Argentina, Brazil, South Africa and Taiwan. In Europe, the competition is supported...Read moreAbout Scania
As the first heavy vehicle manufacturer, Scania delivers trucks with engines that meet the EU’s Euro 4 environmental standard. Urban Johansson, h...Read moreAbout Scania
Scania signs a new joint venture agreement with America’s Cummins on the production of a new generation of high-pressure common-rail fuel injection s...Read moreAbout Scania
Scania celebrates 100 years since of delivering industrial engines. The company’s first customer was the fire brigade in Stockholm, S...Read moreAbout Scania
The Scania Irizar PB receives the Coach of the Year Award in Europe. The same year, Scania’s R-series receives the Truck of the Y...Read moreAbout Scania
The launch of the R-series and, later, the PRT-range in 2004 is the start of an era with a clearer identity for the different cab models. Scania’s f...Read moreAbout Scania
Michele Sandri from Italy wins the first round of Scania’s “Young European Truck Driver”. The biggest competition ever for heavy truck drive...Read moreAbout Scania
Scania sells its 50 percent holding in the Swedish company Svenska Volkswagen AB to Volkswagen AG. Thus, Scania ends its long importership for...Read moreAbout Scania
After 35 years in Katrineholm, Sweden, Scania’s bus chassis production moves back to S?dert?lje and is integrated with the company’s truck opera...Read moreAbout Scania
With more than 170,000 14-litre V8-engines manufactured, by far the best-selling engine in the high-output segment, Scania’s legendary V8 is r...Read moreAbout Scania
Scania’s millionth vehicle rolls off the assembly line in Zwolle, the Netherlands. Eleven factories in five countries have been involved in t...Read moreAbout Scania
As Saab-Scania is divided into two companies, Scania again becomes an independent company. Scania AB and Saab AB (defence materiel and aerospace)...Read moreAbout Scania
The 4-series product line-up is unveiled. With its clean, bulging lines penned by Italian automobile styling house Bertone, the 4-series paves...Read moreAbout Scania
Scania acquires an unused Polish bus factory in S?upsk to set up truck assembly. In the early 2000s, the plant had shifted to bus production ...Read moreAbout Scania
The new assembly unit in Angers, France, is inaugurated. This expands the company’s chassis assembly operations on the European continent. D...Read moreAbout Scania
Saab-Scania becomes a wholly owned subsidiary of Swedish investment company Investor AB and the company is de-listed from the Stockholm stock...Read moreAbout Scania
With the new Streamline cab range, Scania takes a unique step forward in refining aerodynamics. Designers have paid minute attention to detail...Read moreAbout Scania
Scania celebrates the company’s 100th anniversary. The event features a spectacular show that is viewed by 65,000 invited guests over a period o...Read moreAbout Scania
Scania delivers its first ethanol-fuelled buses to Stockholm’s public transport company SL. As a result of the oil crisis, Scania had begun e...Read moreAbout Scania
Leif ?stling, Managing Director of Scania operations in the Netherlands, becomes President and CEO of Scania. He is soon bombarded by questions ...Read moreAbout Scania
The new 3-series is launched and is awarded the prestigious Truck of the Year award. With the new range, Scania further refines the company’s m...Read moreAbout Scania
For the first time, 30,000 vehicles (trucks and buses) are built. This total increases to 35,000 by 1989, the year in which truck production...Read moreAbout Scania
The Scania Technical Centre opens, comprising 34,000 square-metres of office space and 48,000 square-metres of laboratories and testing facilities...Read moreAbout Scania
The griffin makes its long-anticipated comeback in the company’s logo as Saab-Scania reverts to using a trademark as a corporate symbol. The n...Read moreAbout Scania
The rear-engined K chassis is introduced for buses and coaches. The new range is to become one of Scania’s most successful bus chassis. As i...Read moreAbout Scania
Scania introduces the GPRT range (2-series) – the company’s first entirely modularised product range. The range is based on far-reaching mod...Read moreAbout Scania
Increasing from 12,542 trucks in 1970, this year Scania delivers 22,841 trucks of which 5,813 are produced in Brazil, and 3,016 in Zwolle, the...Read moreAbout Scania
A press conference is held to announce that Volvo Corporation and Saab-Scania are to merge. The move is prompted by a situation where the Swedish...Read moreAbout Scania
Scania’s Latin American expansion continues, with the opening of a new production facility in Tucumán, Argentina. The plant has an initial ca...Read moreAbout Scania
Number of employees rises to 16,472 from 11,655 in 1970. Despite continuous expansion of the Swedish plants and the production facilities in...Read moreAbout Scania
To address high personnel turnover, particularly in the chassis assembly workshop in S?dert?lje, Scania makes major efforts to improve the p...Read moreAbout Scania
In cooperation with British bodybuilder Metro-Cammel Weymann Ltd (MCW), Scania approaches the British double-decker market with the new BR111...Read moreAbout Scania
Introduction of the new bonneted workhorse L140 and LS140. Equipped with Scania’s powerful 14-litre V8 engine, the new model quickly becomes p...Read moreAbout Scania
Scania introduces a new, environmentally-oriented city bus with the same noise levels as a car. Thanks to efficient sealing of the engine compartment...Read moreAbout Scania
A total of 11,834 trucks and buses is delivered, mirroring the steady increase in the company’s output during the 1960s. Ten years earlier t...Read moreAbout Scania
Scania-Vabis merges with Saab, the Swedish car and aircraft manufacturer to form a new company, Saab-Scania. The new brand name SCANIA is introduced...Read moreAbout Scania
Introduction of the new 350 hp 14-litre turbocharged V8 engine. Scania’s V8 engines are to become legendary in the transport business. Being t...Read moreAbout Scania
The new forward-control LB110 is introduced. It is the first Scania equipped with a hydraulically tilting cab. This new generation of trucks...Read moreAbout Scania
The exploding demand for buses when Sweden changed from left-hand to right-hand traffic in 1967 led to Scania-Vabis’ acquisition of AB Svenska K...Read moreAbout Scania
Scania-Vabis acquires Be-Ge Karosserifabrik in Oskarshamn, Sweden, which has made truck cabs since 1946. Oskarshamn is today one of two production...Read moreAbout Scania
Scania’s new central laboratory opens. Later nick-named “The Hill”, with the three laboratory wings and an adjacent office building Scania’s laborat...Read moreAbout Scania
Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands inaugurates Scania-Vabis’ new 27,000 square-metre assembly plant in the old Hanseatic town of Zwolle, 100 k...Read moreAbout Scania
Scania-Vabis number 2,000 leaves the newly built factory in S?o Bernardo do Campo, Brazil. The same year, Scania-Vabis introduces the LB76, ...Read moreAbout Scania
Sverker Sj?str?m becomes Scania-Vabis’ first technical director. An expert on strength of materials, he had been recruited to the company in ...Read moreAbout Scania
Scania-Vabis’ first own production facilities outside Sweden open in S?o Bernardo do Campo, near S?o Paulo in Brazil. It is a complete plant for...Read moreAbout Scania
Exports now account for well above 50 percent of Scania-Vabis’ production. Ten years earlier the figure was less than 10 percent. Behind the i...Read moreAbout Scania
Scania-Vabis starts a subsidiary in Brazil to overcome import restrictions, which threaten to exclude the company from what is now the company’s l...Read moreAbout Scania
The Scania-Vabis Metropol suburban bus, developed in collaboration with US-based Mack Manufacturing Corporation, is launched in the Swedish market....Read moreAbout Scania
Launch of the L51 Drabant, the first in a new generation of trucks to match an increasing demand during the 1950s for trucks with higher payloads....Read moreAbout Scania
Scania-Vabis becomes the Swedish general agent for Volkswagen. This evolves into a very profitable business for the company and makes the company...Read moreAbout Scania
Peace creates a huge demand for new vehicles, not least for passenger transport. Scania-Vabis introduces the four-cylinder B10 interurban bus...Read moreAbout Scania
Scania-Vabis introduces new trucks for the civilian market, among them a new series of two-axle diesel trucks, the four-cylinder, 90 hp, L10....Read moreAbout Scania
Military orders have a peak year and account for 84 percent of the turnover and 98 percent of the company’s profits. During this period, Scania-Vabis i...Read moreAbout Scania
Carl-Berthel Nathhorst, a 32-year old graduate engineer, becomes new Managing Director, having been recruited to Scania-Vabis by the Chairman...Read moreAbout Scania
Despite the outbreak of World War Two the Board of Scania-Vabis decides to implement its expansion plans of doubling the production facilities...Read moreAbout Scania
The first women are employed in the Scania-Vabis’ factory, initially on inspection and similar duties. Although resistance to the employment o...Read moreAbout Scania
After the depression, Scania-Vabis continues to grow each year. In 1937, the company has 618 employees – one tenth of them white-collar. The s...Read moreAbout Scania
Scania-Vabis first diesel engine is developed, a breakthrough in engine development. Featuring a pre-combustion chamber, the engine is based...Read moreAbout Scania
The last year that the company shows a loss. Even during periods of sagging markets for trucks and buses, Scania has shown good earnings. For...Read moreAbout Scania
Scania-Vabis delivers its first forward-control “bulldog” bus. The design is inspired by US bus maker Twin Coach in Ohio to which Scania-Vabis chi...Read moreAbout Scania
Scania-Vabis reaches an agreement with engine designer Jonas Hesselman. The cooperation leads to the launch of Sweden’s first automotive engine f...Read moreAbout Scania
An order from the Swedish Customs Service of nine six-cylinder marine engines for patrol boats formally opens up a new product area: industrial...Read moreAbout Scania
Scania-Vabis launches a six-cylinder engine which developed 100 hp after minor modifications. The company can now offer more powerful engines...Read moreAbout Scania
Scania-Vabis unveils the first truck in a radically modernised new range made in S?dert?lje. Obsolescent chain drives are replaced by propeller-shaft d...Read moreAbout Scania
Two important policy decisions for the future of Scania-Vabis are taken; production is concentrated to S?dert?lje and activities are to focus o...Read moreAbout Scania
The Swedish Post Office places its first order for 15 mail buses. This greatly contributes to the survival of Scania-Vabis and points the way...Read moreAbout Scania
August Nilsson, a talented designer, patents a new carburettor which improved reliability and fuel economy. Nilsson’s engine designs are one c...Read moreAbout Scania
The depression following World War One has a severe impact on Scania-Vabis. In 1921 the company runs into financial difficulties. Fresh capital...Read moreAbout Scania
With end of World War One approaching, truck production in Malm? is running at full capacity. The annual capacity is 125 vehicles. The objectives ...Read moreAbout Scania
A newly built foundry is opened adjacent to the Scania-Vabis head office in S?dert?lje, Sweden. The facility is where the heart of a Scania v...Read moreAbout Scania
Scania-Vabis is created by merging Maskinfabriksaktiebolaget Scania in Malm? and Vagnfabriksaktiebolaget i S?dertelge under the leadership o...Read moreAbout Scania
Local operator Nordmarkens Automobiltrafik in the westernmost part of Sweden takes delivery of the first bus built in the country. Equipped with...Read moreAbout Scania
A Scania truck type E with a 24 hp engine undertakes the adventurous 520 kilometre trip from Malm? in the south of Sweden to the capital Stockholm. ...Read moreAbout Scania
The Vabis trademark is first registered in 1906. Although it is not known when the name is first used unofficially, it is appearing in advertisements...Read moreAbout Scania
Scania’s very first industrial engine is delivered to the fire brigade in Stockholm, Sweden, to be installed in a water pump. The engine is a...Read moreHeritage
In 1896 the English bicycle makers Humber & Co had established a subsidiary in Malm?, Sweden. Four years later the operation is acquired ...Read moreAbout Scania
The first completely Swedish-built car is born. The maiden drive, with mechanical engineer and designer Gustaf Erikson himself at the controls,...Read moreAbout Scania
