KYIV. Dec 26 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Etalon Corporation intends to start producing buses for the Ukrainian market at Chernihiv automobile plant from January 10, 2017 (in 2016 the plant was almost idle). The plant will produce around 25 buses a month, Etalon Corporation President Volodymyr Butko has said.
“Today we have paid for around 140 bus kits and with our pace we would have work for the first half of the year. Today the plant is optimistic. We are attracting workers to start bus production at Chernihiv automobile plant on the Ashok Leyland chassis,” Butko told Interfax-Ukraine.
He said that 8, 9 and 9.5-meter buses will be made. From April the plant would start mass production of city buses with low-deck rear platform for people on wheel chairs.
He said that the corporation hopes that the bus market would stir up and the plant would not produce buses for warehouses.
This year the plant made only 10 trolleybuses and two buses on DAF units and sold over 200 vehicles.
Butko said that this year the model range has been significantly upgraded.
Etalon Corporation units 21 enterprises, including two automobile plants in Boryspil and Chernihiv.
