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Automotive OEMs’ production capacity and utilization are key indicators not only for the industry but also for the global economy. Access to reliable capacity and utilization forecasts – along with an understanding of their short- and long-term implications – is fundamental to identifying industry growth opportunities and red flags.
S&P Global Medium and Heavy Commercial Vehicle (MHCV) Plant Capacity Forecast provides information and insights to support you in optimizing planning and investment decisions, maximizing opportunities and minimizing risks, and building winning competitive strategies.
Download a sample data forecastView our eight-year forecast (current year plus seven) for plant capacity and utilization
Assess proximity of supplier capacity to OEM customer production locations
Government agencies
Understand employment, production capacity, and utilization of domestic MHCV sector over the forecast horizon
Financial institutions
Evaluate OEMs’ utilization of manufacturing assets and ability to react to market changes
Assess OEMs’ manufacturing costs and labor union footprint
In-depth analysis on a global scale
The MHCV Plant Capacity Forecast extends the unmatched coverage of our MHCV Production Forecast, spanning across over 500 plants (including completely built up and knocked down plants) in 53 countries with 10 years of history (from calendar year 2010) and a 8-year (current year plus seven years) forecast horizon. It provides analysis on total capacity/utilization by OEM, plant, and region. Fields include:
Region
Country/Territory
Manufacturing group
Manufacturer
Labor representation
Production/Assembly plant
Plant footprint (latitude and longitude)
Initial output date
Shift set-up
Production volume
Normalized capacity and utilization (%)
Straight-time capacity and utilization (%)
Maximum capacity and utilization (%)
The Plant Capacity Module is updated quarterly. Both history and forecast data are delivered in annual buckets. In addition, a map function is also available in our online business intelligence tool, Autoinsight, to offer a visual analysis on global MHCV production layout.
Experts
Andrej Divis
Members of his team are located in Brazil, mainland China,
India, Japan and the United States as well as in Europe. Educated
in the United States, he holds a master's degree from The Johns
Hopkins University and a bachelor's from Georgetown. His spoken
languages include English, Czech and German.Andrej brings nearly two decades of automotive and
commercial-vehicle industry experience to the role, having begun
his career in 2001 as a truck analyst with PlanEcon/Global Insight
(now part of S&P Global), covering Eastern Europe and the
Middle East. He held a variety of analytical and planning positions
with General Motors in Europe starting in 2003. These included
assignments in Germany and in Hungary and roles in forecasting; new
business development; and product planning. Based in the United
States now, Andrej re-joined Automotive in 2012, focusing on the
East European and North American truck markets.Recent team efforts have focused on the effects of the COVID
pandemic on the commercial-vehicle markets, and on upcoming
new-technology rollouts, including the anticipated increased
electrification of buses and trucks.
Global lead of S&P Global's Heavy Commercial Vehicle Sales
Forecsting team, overseeing vehicle sales forecast process, looking
after analysis of market trends and tracking manufacturer's
strategies, ivestment plans and competitive positions. Members of
her team, located in China, Brazil, India and Europe, specialize in
heavy commercial vehicle forecasting and vehicle segmentation
analysis. Ewa has more than 20 years of direct experience in
forecasting trends in the automotive industry, having begun her
carrier as an automotive analyst with McGraw-Hill/Global Insight
(now part of S&P Global).Ewa holds a Master of Science degree in economics from the
University of Wroclaw in Poland. She speaks fluent Polish and
English.
His primary responsibility is production forecasts for the three
North American markets (United States, Canada, Mexico) including
the market intelligence, trends and technical developments across
the region.Antti earned a Master's degree at the University of Michigan and
a Bachelor's degree at the University of Turku, in Finland.
Languages: English, Finnish, German, Swedish.
For more than 15 years, Christiane has been looking after
forecasts for trucks and buses. She joined the company in mid-2016
and manages the Global Production Forecast for medium and heavy
commercial vehicles. This includes OEM intelligence, capacity
forecasting, sourcing strategies, and segmentation. Christiane
leads a team of analysts located in mainland China, India, South
Africa, Brazil, and North America.Prior to joining S&P Global, Christiane worked nearly ten
years in the automotive industry. Her work experience includes
positions at MAN Truck & Bus AG and BorgWarner Turbo Systems
where she forecasted and segmented the global truck, bus, and
passenger car markets.Recent team efforts have focused on the effects of the COVID
pandemic and component shortages on the commercial-vehicle
production. The latest product offering by the team is the MHCV
Production Capacity Forecast.Christiane graduated in Business Administration in Leipzig,
Germany. Her spoken languages include English, German and
Italian.
Jia is responsible for medium and heavy commercial vehicle
industry analysis and sales forecast in Greater China. Her
expertise includes sales forecast, OEM strategy, market trend,
competition analysis, and analysis on industry-related regulation
and policy. Before joining S&P Global in July 2011, she worked
as senior industry analyst in the Strategy Department of a leading
Chinese medium and heavy commercial vehicle OEM. Prior to that, she
gained macroeconomics research background when she worked on the
trading floor of a world-class fixed asset investment firm.Jia holds an MS degree in Macroeconomics, Finance and Statistics
from Humbolt University of Berlin in Germany.
