Kogel takes on Big K trailers
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• Kassbohrer, Germany's largest semi-trailer manufacturer, is to stop building most of its product range from April, following a deal with Kogel which has bought all the Big K's trailer activities excluding dry and liquid bulk tanker trailers and car transporters (built in Austria) along with some limited trailer production at its Danish subsidiary Kassbohrer-Bilcon.
Kogel, which is based in Kassbohrer's home city of Ulm, will take over Kassbohrer's Burtenbach plant which currently employs 420.
In 1991 some 3,800 Kassbohrer trailers of all types were sold in Germany—equivalent to a 8.7% share of the semi-trailer market.
Although Kassbohrer is now more strongly committed to its bus and coach programme it will continue to provide repair and maintenance facilities for its own trailers and Kogel equipment through factory-owned and contractor-operated service points across the Continent.
The move puts Kogel at number one in the German trailer market; it says it will help fill spare capacity at its Werdau plant in the former GDR which will increasingly use trailer frames and other components made by a Kogel-owned supplier in Poland.