Truck manufacturer BT Products in Mjölby is producing electric powered trucks like never before. Incoming orders have reached a record high in 2005 and the workforce is increasing considerably.
Production of electric powered trucks has increased by 150% in 10 years! Much of this dramatic increase has been made possible through improved productivity, although it has also resulted in many new jobs at the factory in Mjölby, central Sweden.

“We operate on markets which are showing sound growth,” says Thomas Persson, head of the Powered Trucks division in Mjölby. “Our sales organisation have been very successful, so we’ve not only increased our market growth but our market share too. We have achieved record production figures in nine of the past 10 years! We produced just under 15,000 electric powered trucks in 1995 and this year the figure will exceed 38,000. We’re continuously increasing our production capacity and in a few years’ time we’ll have technical capacity for 60,000...