China's major heavy-duty truck producer -- BeiBen Heavy-Duty Truck Co. Ltd. -- has started manufacturing vehicles on the country's longest truck assembly line, which has a yearly production capacity of 50,000 truck chassis.
The 760-meter long production line with mechanical arms can assemble a truck in 4 minutes, and simultaneously assemble 49 trucks and finish them in 100 minutes, said Yan Jiang, deputy manager of BeiBen.
With the new production line, the company headquartered in Baotou City, in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, has a combined production capacity of 100,000 units of heavy-duty trucks a year, according to Wang Shihong, general manager of the company.
The company realized a revenue of 7.89 billion yuan (1.23 billion U.S. dollars) in the first seven months, an increase of 15 percent year-on-year.
