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Within the frames of the official ceremony held for the Swedish Automobile Sport Federation 75-anniversary the FIA members accepted the world record set by Boye Overbrink, a truck racer famous in the earlier times, on the Mean Green hybrid truck and presented the respective certificate to him.

On our national unity day the president of the Russian Federation Dmitriy Medvedev and the prime-minister Vladimir Putin visited Gorkiy automobile plant and had a look at our new home-grown technologies used for wheeled armored vehicles production.

MAN Truck & Bus takes over the joint venture named «MAN Force Trucks Pvt. Ltd.» established in 2006 which produces MAN CLA heavy trucks both for realization at the Indian market and for export to Asia and Africa.

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JV «IVECO Hongyan Commercial Vehicle Co.» (SIH), lodging in the city of Chengdu, province of Sichuan  (China), issued in production run a new model of  truck Kingkan («Êing» means leadership and the name «Kan» was ascribed in old Chinese legends to a strong and mighty animal).

Within nine months of 2011 in Russia there were produced 147284 trucks or  45,0% more than for the same period of the last year. This figure remains the highest one among all sectors of Russian car market.

32181 buses were produced in RF within nine months of 2011 according to AO ASM-holding, including small class chassis buses of foreign little tonnage producers Ford Transit, MB Sprinter, VW Crafter, Peugeot Boxer and IVECO Daily, that is 7,9% more than the same period of the last year.

Likhachev Plant celebrated its 95-th anniversary.

New environmental requirements for internal combustion engines, which entered into force on the territory of Europe and the United States of America in January 2011. These requirements led to the spreading of engines of IIIB/4i generations. The dimensions of these engines and related systems of treatment of exhaust gases require introduction of changes in the design of produced equipment Sandvik. In order to provide customers with world-class facilities, the Sandvik Company upgraded the line of mobile crushing plants, which are now equipped with new engines Caterpillar.

In Old Kupavna located in Moscow region there was conducted the opening of Europe's largest plant for the production of aerated blocks of autoclaved concretion on the basis of product lines of HESS AAC Systems BV.