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Number of engineers employed : 83

Mechanical engineers : 53
Industrial engineers : 14
Electrical and Electronics engineers : 7
Chemical engineers : 3
Metallurgical engineers : 2
Computer engineers : 3
Physics engineers : 1
Worker : 780
Other officers : 100

Total personal number : 962

INTRODUCTION:
Main sphere of activity :

Production of light duty trucks, heavy duty trucks and unimogs for Turkey and exporting to other countries.
The production scale includes light ATEGO to heavy AXOR vehicles, Unimogs and partial production to the factories in Mannheim, Ulm and Istanbul for the production of buses.
At the same time the substructures of buses are produced at Aksaray Truck Plant.

History of the company :

Mercedes-Benz Turk was established in Istanbul in 1967 under the name "Otomarsan" as a partnership between Daimler-Benz AG (36%), Mengerler Ticaret A.Ş. (32%) and Has Otomotiv (32%).
The Company started the production of 0 302 type buses in 1968. In 1970, only 2 years after its foundation, the Company started to export and of the 36.000 buses produced, over 12.600 buses have been exported to date. In 1984 the Company was appointed as the general representative of Mercedes-Benz in Turkey, added with new partners to the enterprise and started a new investment necessary for production of trucks.

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