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| Industry | Automotive |
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| Founded | 1950; 75 years ago (1950) |
| Headquarters | Del Monte Avenue,Quezon City,Philippines |
Area served | Philippines |
Key people | Narciso O. Morales President and Chairman |
| Products | Truck and bus bodywork |
| Subsidiaries | Del Monte Land Transport Bus company |
| Website | www.delmontemotorworks.com |
Del Monte Motor Works, Inc. (DMMW), also known asDel Monte Motors, is abus andtruck manufacturer headquartered inQuezon City,Philippines. It was established in 1950. The company offers a range of truck and bus bodies for its all major brands. It is also one of the leading bus body manufacturers in the Philippines, other including Santarosa Motor Works;Almazora Motors Corporation; andHino Motors Philippines.
In 1950, it started manufacturing bus and truck bodies mounted on leading US brands, beingInternational Harvester,Ford,Chevrolet, and theDodge Chassis. Also, in the 1950s, its sister company, the Emcos Development & Supply Co., Inc. was the leading distributor of International Harvester Macleod, Inc. in Northern Luzon marketing bus chassis, trucks, tractors, agricultural and farm implements.
At present, it is solely responsible for the introduction of Volvo articulated andbi-articulated buses in the Philippines. Philtrak, Volvo, and Del Monte have signed a supply and transfer of technology agreement wherein Volvo will supply its products, mainly the articulated and the bi-articulated bus chassis, and Del Monte will manufacture and assemble the bus body and deliver the finished bus product to Philtrak. Volvo agreed to transfer its technology in the assembly of its articulated and bi-articulated bus chassis to Philtrak and Del Monte jointly constituting a tri-partite agreement among the aforestated parties. Together, they intend to introduce the system not only in Metro Manila but all over the Philippines where the need arises especially on traffic clogged areas.
It is also responsible in re-activating the sale ofIsuzu buses in the Philippines when the combined resources ofGeneral Motors Corporation, the Yutivo group and its local subsidiary folded up in the middle 1980s by importing directly from the factory of Japan'sIsuzu and supplying different bus operators. It is still authorized to import bus and truck chassis on CBU basis and packaging it with the bus or truck body manufactured from its plant.
In 2009, after Batangas Laguna Tayabas Bus Company Incorporated (BLTBCo.)'s suspended operations and renovation for six years, DMMW took over the management of BLTBCo. They rename the company asDel Monte Land Transport Bus Company (DLTBCo), and continues routes to Metro Manila viaLaguna,Quezon Province,Batangas Province,Camarines Sur,Camarines Norte, andAlbay. Their buses are also made from the company with High Class Greyhound facilities.
In 2018, DMWW began working together withHyundai to assemble a modernjeepney.[1] Their first units, the Hyundai HD50S Class 2 Modern Jeepney, rolled off the assembly line in 2019.[2] That same year, they began working together withScania to build a body for their Scania Touring buses.[3]
Pura Bus, an in-house body building division of GV Florida Transport, has a partnership with DMMW thus authorized to produce bus models similar with DMMWI's model line-up.
It has four existing plants and facilities in the Philippines. Two of them are located inQuezon City the third one atSto. Tomas, Pampanga and the fourth one atCaloocan. It has a tested capacity of a minimum of sixty units of bus and truck bodies a month. It has supplied the majority of bus bodies for the government-owned corporations like theMetro Manila Transit Corporation and thePNR Motor Service. Before the introduction of these articulated buses, Del Monte has pioneered in the manufactured of bus trailers with a capacity of 200 passengers which were operated by MMTC in EDSA and by a private bus operator in the long stretch Marcos Highway. It was also involved in the assembly and rehabilitation of the British Leyland double deckers used to be operated by the same MMTC.
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