- Del Monte Motor Works, Inc.
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Del Monte Motor Works, Inc. Type Public company Industry Manufacturing, automotive industry Headquarters Del Monte Avenue, Quezon City, Philippines Area served Philippines Products Trucks, buses, diesel Website www.delmontemotors.com Del Monte Motor Works, Inc.., also known as Del Monte Motors or DMMC, is a bus and truck manufacturer which has been serving the Philippine transport industry since 1954. It has been providing the bus requirements of Metro Manila and provincial bus operators and has manufactured bus and truck bodies for almost all of the leading European and Asian brand of bus and truck chassis including some in the Middle East. Most prominent of these brands are the Volvo of Sweden, Mercedes-Benz and MAN Diesel of Germany, Fiat of Italy, Leyland of England, Ashok of India, Isuzu, Mitsubishi Fuso, Nissan Diesel and Hino of Japan, Daewoo, Hyundai and Ssangyong of Korea. In the early 1950s it started manufacturing bus and truck bodies mounted on leading American brands such as the International Harvester, Ford, Chevrolet, and the Dodge 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 and bi-articulated buses in the Philippines. Through its earnest effort and initiative, 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 and 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 of Isuzu buses in the Philippines when the combined resources of General Motors Corporation, the Yutivo group and Isuzu Philippines folded up in the middle 1980s by importing directly from the factory of Isuzu, Japan 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.
It has three existing plants and facilities in the Philippines. Two of them are strategically located in Quezon City and the third one at Sto. Tomas, Pampanga, a one-hour drive from Quezon City. 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 the Metro Manila Transit Corporation and the PNR (Phil. National Railways) 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.
Products
A DMMC Aero Adamant operated by GV Florida Transport, Inc. This specific bus uses a Hino RM2P chassis paired with a Hino P11C-TH engine
- Aero Adamant
- Aero Extreme
- Series I - uses headlamps from a Golden Dragon XML6796
- Series II - uses headlamps from a Yutong ZK6116D
- DM09
- DM10 Series
- Series I - uses headlamps from a Hyundai Universe and LED tail lamps.
- Series II - uses headlamps and tail lamps from a 2008 model Kia Granbird
- DM11
Clients
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- Autobus
- Bicol University
- Cher Transport
- Coral Bay
- DLTBCo
- Executive Carrier Services Inc.
- GV Florida Transport
- Hanjin
- Nembog Bus
- Newman Goldliner, Inc.
- Philippine Airlines
- Partas
- Peñafrancia Tours and Travel Transport Inc.
- Philippine Rabbit
- Phoenix Publishing House
- Pintakasi
- Provincial Government of Lanao del Norte
- Quantum
- Santrans
- Silverstar
- SM Mall of Asia
- V.Dalin Bus Line (Dalin Liner)
- Victory Liner
References
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