For the IAA 2024, Schmitz Cargobull is applying the motto “Delivering Performance” to showcase efficient transport solutions that customers can use to improve their fleet’s performance and optimise overall operating costs. At a pre-IAA press conference at the box body trailer production site in Vreden, new products were already presented to trade journalists in June 2024.
With its integrated portfolio of vehicles and services, Schmitz Cargobull offers its customers comprehensive full package solutions from a single source. The product and service solutions presented guarantee the reliable transportation of goods and data, increase transport reliability and efficiency, and also improve vehicle availability and operating times. They support transparency within the supply chain and forward-looking transport planning, helping to increase the sustainability of road-based transport through high fuel efficiency.
Centre of Expertise and Production Plants
At the site in Vreden, around 2,000 employees produce refrigerated box body semi-trailers for temperature-controlled transport and dry freight, as well as producing Schmitz Cargobull S.CU transport cooling units. The Schmitz Cargobull factory in Vreden has received multiple awards for its innovative ideas and production processes, along with its impressive products. The site is currently receiving wide-scale investment to expand its capacities. The goal is to create a digital, automated factory with high quality standards and a diverse range of variants for maximum utilisation of capacity. A new assembly hall with automated production systems is being built over an area of 4,500 m2. As a result of the factory expansion, Schmitz Cargobull will in future be able to produce up to 80 refrigerated vehicles a day in a two-shift model. Schmitz Cargobull is also investing in its “Cargobull Event Campus”, a venue for events and training located directly next to the company’s premises.
Around two kilometres from the box body semi-trailer production facilities, Schmitz Cargobull S.CU transport cooling units are produced at the Vreden-Gaxel site. Cargobull Cool GmbH & Co. KG is a subsidiary of Schmitz Cargobull AG and was first founded in 2012. Its team of around 100 employees develop, test and produce conventional and electric transport cooling units, which are used in Schmitz Cargobull refrigerated vehicles. More than 20 percent of Schmitz Cargobull’s S.KO.COOL refrigerated vehicles are delivered with the Schmitz Cargobull S.CU transport cooling unit.
Overview of new products and services:
Cool, sustainable transport solutions
- Portfolio of tried-and-tested transport cooling units
- (New) Countless equipment variants for economically efficient and sustainable transport in S.KO COOL and S.KOe COOL refrigerated box body semi-trailers
- (New) Single-axle refrigerated box body semi-trailer S.KO CITY – the quick and versatile transport solution for urban distribution
Dry freight and multi-modal transport
- Dry freight semi-trailer S.BO EXPRESS for the secure transport of high-quality goods in courier and express services
- (New) Dry freight semi-trailer S.BO PACE combined with the aerodynamic EcoFIX body for the first time, created especially for the CEP sector
- Efficient solutions for multi-modal transport: The A.WF and Z.WF swap chassis and the W.BO swap box
- (New) Greater efficiency and safety in container transport: The S.CF semi-trailer container chassis with a stand-alone generator set ex works
General Cargo
- (New) Robust design meets aerodynamics – S.CS X-TOUGH curtainsider semi-trailer with robust chassis and aerodynamic EcoFIX body
- EcoDUO – transport concept
- (New) Lightweight BERGERecotrail vehicles now with the full range of services available from Schmitz Cargobull – show vehicle BERGER ecoCOIL
Construction & agriculture
- S.KI tipper trailer for added payload – with TrailerConnect® trailer telematics, digital on-board weighing system and camera systems
Digital services and after sales
- (New) New digital services: Predictive maintenance, Data Management Centre and Tour-Track
- Proprietary tyre pressure monitoring system (TPMS) for trailers – equipped for the new standard UN ECE R 141
- High spare parts availability, simple supply process and quick service with the EPOS spare parts portal
- (New) “Cargobull PartnerConnect” – the new communication platform for Schmitz Cargobull Service Partners
Fleetloop
- The start-up FLEETLOOP, a joint venture between the commercial vehicle rental company Greiwing and Schmitz Cargobull, is presenting a digital solution for commercial vehicle rental.