Construction World October 2020

MARKETPLACE

SCANIACELEBRATES 25 YEARS AT THE FOREFRONT

Sustainable business solutions have always been at the heart of Scania South Africa’s offering. “We’ve always known that we are only successful when our customers succeed,” says Fabio Souza, MD Scania Southern Africa. Since Scania’s launch in South Africa 25 years ago with Scania’s first dealerships opening in Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban, Scania South Africa has been driving the shift towards sustainability in the South African transport industry.”

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those margins even smaller which is why Scania South Africa’s vehicles and services are anything but standard.” Scania’s well- known modular system offers customers both a tailor-made vehicle DQG D WHDP DW 6FDQLD 6RXWK $IULFD UHDG\ WR ZRUN WR ͤQG VROXWLRQV WR increase revenues. Scania South Africa’s highly successful 2019 launch of the next-generation truck range that earned the global title of Truck of WKH

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