In just three years since the start of production in September 2016, the workers at the Września plant, which supplies the base Crafter and TGE vehicles to UK minibus converters, have produced 200,000 Crafter and MAN TGE vehicles.
The landmark vehicle is a Crafter panel van with a 177 PS 2.0-litre TDI engine and six-speed manual gearbox. Painted in a Deep Ocean Blue finish, the vehicle will be staying in Poland, as it is going to a small company in Zielona Góra.
Since the start of production in autumn 2016, the Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles plant has to date produced around 172,600 Crafter vans and, for sister Group company MAN, 27,400 Crafter-based TGE models. Christiane Engel, Plant Director at Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles in Września, is celebrating with her team: “We are delighted that Września has produced its 200,000th vehicle, a Crafter. This vehicle is proof of the high quality of the work produced by our staff and a mark of recognition from our customers all over the world.”
Crafter units shipped to customers globally totalled 56,400 from January to October 2019 alone, a year-on-year increase of 25.2%. Built-in a record time of just 23 months, the factory began operating in autumn 2016. Since September 2018, the plant has been running three shifts with daily production of 420 vehicles. By October 2018, just two years after the start of production, the 100,000th vehicle, also a Crafter, had already left the line. More than 3,000 workers at the plant make the Crafter and the MAN TGE, plus custom vehicles.
