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10 12.3 to 12.8.2018 Company mediumsegments”. With the hiring it reaches 8 thousand the number of employees at the factory in São Paulo, and 1 thousand and 40 employees inMinas Gerais. The contracts last for one year, the company said, with the possibility of being extended for another year. The combined production capacity of the two units is 80 thousand units/ year, which seems to be enough tomeet the growing demand expected by the company in the domestic and foreignmarkets. In Juiz de For a, the extra heavy truck Actros is produced, its best seller. Until October, according to data fromAnfavea, the company sold 7 thousand 674 units of themodel in Brazil, which made it leader of the Brazilianmarket in the period. In São Bernardo do Campo, where other models of trucks and buses are produced, there is also a need to producemore engines due to the growth observed in demand abroad. According to Schiemer, the company has signed intracompany contracts supplying units installed inGermany andMexico in the last two years: “Although they have been agreed in the past, we can nowonly count the exported units because therewas time to adjust the line. ToMexico, we send engines for light andmedium trucks. To Germany, for heavy vehicles”. This year the company is expected to export 7,1 thousand units of Euro 3 and Euro 5 engines, Mercedes-Benz opens new shifts in SP and MG Bruno de Oliveira | bruno@autodata.com.br S ão Bernardo do Campo, SP -Mercedes-Benz announced on Tuesday, 4, the hiring of six hundred temporary employees towork in the factories of São Bernardo do Campo, SP, and Juiz de Fora, MG. It means the opening of the second shift for the production of trucks in São Paulo (closed since 2014) and the resumption of the third shift inMinas Gerais, which had not happened since 2013. Four hundredworkers will be incorporated in January. The remaining two hundredworkers are scheduled towork on the production lines from April. However the hiring of this final group is uncertain. According to Philipp Schiemer, president and CEO for Latin America, theywill happen “as long as the truckmarket continues to expand”, according to the automaker’s projections: “The extra heavyweight vehicles will continue to sustain themarket, but we see fleet renewal in customers who do not have transportation as a final activity in the light and