Zastava Trucks | |
Native Name: | Застава Камиони |
Native Name Lang: | sr |
Romanized Name: | Zastava Kamioni |
Type: | Subsidiary |
Industry: | Automotive |
Fate: | Bankruptcy procedure |
Foundation: | |
Location City: | Kragujevac |
Location Country: | Serbia |
Area Served: | Worldwide |
Products: | Trucks |
Parent: | Group Zastava Vehicles |
Zastava Trucks (Serbian: Застава Камиони|Zastava Kamioni) is a Serbian truck manufacturer based in the city of Kragujevac, Serbia. It is a subsidiary of Group Zastava Vehicles which declared bankruptcy in May 2017. In September 2017, the Government of Serbia established Zastava TERVO, which took over Zastava Trucks production facilities.
For that reason, on 18 June 1969, the decision was made by Zastava to start with organization the factory "Fabrike privrednih vozila - Zastava" including long-term development program with the following goals: 1. to realize development within cooperation with Officine Meccaniche (part of FIAT) but to exceed license form of cooperation and to base the same on the work distribution through the long-term production cooperation 2. to provide production of the components through the cooperation as well as of the vital assemblies in the batches which provide economical production 3. to create conditions for production the modern commercial vehicles, well-known on the world market, and in that way also the conditions for their commercialization on the local and foreign market.On the base of the new contracts with FIAT production started of light delivery vans with a payload of 0.6 t, in Sombor, in the newly opened III plant. In addition to the production of the vehicles, based on this contract, production started of front and rear axles, chassis frames and other components for the needs of ""Zastava" factory in Kragujevac as well as for the needs of the factory in Brescia. With the contract on long-term production cooperation, dated August 5, 1978, the new Gamma range of commercial vehicles, OM-40/35, so-called "MALI OM" was introduced. Soon after that FIAT IVECO transferred production of the Gamma vehicles to "Zastava-Privredna Vozila" (ZPV) so this Gamma isn't produced only for the local market's needs but also for sale through the partner's sales network.
By conclusion of Government of Serbia in August 2017, a new company was formed - Zastava Tervo - all properties of former Zastava Trucks were transferred to new company.
With the contract on "KNOW HOW" and contract on industrial cooperation with IVECO, dated 1985 and 1988, the commercial vehicles range was expanded to: