SAUR's Panambí plant.

Brazilian attachment manufacturer SAUR Equipamentos S.A. and Germany's KAUP GmbH & Co. KG have formed an agreement to co-operate in Brazil. With immediate effect SAUR will market and sell the complete product range of the European manufacturer, with the majority of local requirements manufactured at the SAUR production plant in Panambí using KAUP components.

Ingrid Saur, managing director of SAUR Equipamentos S.A. sees KAUP as a natural co-operation partner.

SAUR began manufacturing attachments under KAUP licence in the 1970s.

"We have a common past history, both are family-managed businesses with nearly the same business philosophies and views, so that our co-operation is built on common interests," Saur says.

Since SAUR's initial KAUP licence expired, it has continued to independently design attachments which largely followed the KAUP design philosophy.

The new agreement gives SAUR exclusive rights for the entire KAUP attachment programme in Brazil.

Holger Kaup, managing director of KAUP GmbH & Co. KG, meanwhile, also welcomes the deal, seeing SAUR as "the ideal partner" because of its local mar-keting skills and its "manufacturing know-how for our products".

In order to manufacture locally, SAUR will receive components such as side-shifter kits and clamp body kits. These will be completed at the Panambí plant, where they will be combined with local components for delivery as complete state-of-the-art attachments.