Brilliance Caetano Bus Manufacturing Technology (Dalian) Co., Ltd. is a joint venture between Brilliance Auto Investment (Dalian) Co., Ltd. and Salvador Caetano Industria, SGPS, SA, with a registered capital of RMB 28 million and a total investment of RMB40 million. The JV is located in the special vehicle manufacturing base of Brilliance Dalian Special Zone, Dalian, China. The factory has an area of 32 ,000 ㎡ and will have three production line constructed in three stages till 2015, of which the line for airport bus has been put into operation since 2013 and the second and third lines for city bus will be built in 2014 and 2015 respectively.
Salvador Caetano Group is a company with 60 years history for the auto production, sales and service. Currently, the Group has more than 150 branch companies and about 6800 employees. With its excellent and world-famous product performance, COBUS airport shuttle bus produced by Caetano Group has been sold to Southeast Asian countries such as China, Singapore, Thailand and South Korea, American countries such as Columbia and African countries such as Nigeria, Mozambique, Angola and Tunisia.
Salvador Caetano Group created the first-class brand of COBUS in the field of airport apron buses worldwide with its unique vehicle manufacturing technology and decades of experience in manufacturing airport apron buses. The airport apron buses produced by Caetano boosted over 75% of the global market share. The airport apron buses CBUS3000 produced by Brilliance Caetano completed followed the design and manufacturing processes of COBUS3000 of Salvador Caetano Group. CBUS3000, and will be the major product of Brilliance Caetano during its first phase of construction.