Exporting trucks is step one. Helping a market build its own truck industry is step two. CLW Group has now signed knock-down (KD) factory projects in seven countries on three continents.
7 KD partner countries | 1,000+ units/yr first phase, Kazakhstan | 5 projects signed 16 Sep 2026 | ~USD 80M CLW truck exports 2024 |
Under the KD model, trucks ship as kits and are assembled in the destination market. That lowers freight and tariff burden, qualifies for local-content programmes, creates assembly jobs at home — and shortens the supply chain for spare parts and variants. It is the model global truck majors use to enter protected markets; CLW is now running the same play across Central Asia, the Middle East, Southeast Asia and North Africa.
The programme opened in March 2025 with a memorandum of cooperation on a Kazakhstan plant — Central Asia’s largest vehicle market, targeting more than 1,000 special vehicles a year in the first phase with a path to thousands. A Malaysia plant is being upgraded in parallel, with joint development of new-energy models for the local market on the roadmap.
At its Global Partners Conference on 16 September 2026 in Suizhou, CLW signed five further overseas KD projects — Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, Sudan, Bangladesh and Kyrgyzstan — alongside customer orders totalling 1,600 water, sewage and refrigerated trucks booked the same day. The group’s truck exports grew more than 50% in 2024 to roughly USD 80 million; KD is the next curve.
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