Scania officially opens 10th Australian sales and service branch

Scania Australia has announced a milestone moment in its local presence, doubling its Western Australian footprint with the opening of a brand new, purpose-built branch in Hope Valley.

Situated within the City of Kwinana, south of Perth, the 19,000sqm sales and service site is located at 6 Armstrong Road.

It includes a stand-alone 3,500sqm regional warehouse that will supply WA Scania on-road customers and off-road mining and resources clients while also assisting the existing Kewdale site with the implementation of Scania’s industry leading autonomous and EV mining truck solutions.

The site is the 10th that Scania uniquely owns and operates for its sales and service locations around Australian capital cities, with customers also being supported via a network of more than 60 authorised independent dealers across truck, bus, marine and industrial engine applications.

Hope Valley has been designed to accommodate future BEV vehicle needs, with sufficient capacity in the electrical supply for fast-charging and underground preparation for the installation of charging infrastructure. The site will also include a climate controlled clean room for repairs to battery cells when required.

“Hope Valley is our second company-owned sales and service location in the Perth region, and it is well situated close to the developing Kwinana outer harbour port facility, and supported by upgraded road infrastructure,” Scania WA, SA and the NT dealer director Michael Berti says.

“Demand for Scania products has been increasing significantly in the west over the past decade, and we were very much in need of additional service and parts facilities to maintain our customers’ uptime, and that of our projected conquests over the medium term.

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“We opened a new dedicated parts distribution warehouse in Welshpool only around four years ago, but such has been the growth of the Scania business in Western Australia, this facility has already surpassed all expectations, and this in part prompted us to further expand our parts capacity at Hope Valley. We have effectively doubled our available warehousing floorspace, and the storage height available, to handle current demand and support future developments in both ICE and BEV product ranges.”

Scania Australia managing director Manfred Streit broke earth on the project site alongside Berti in March last year, with the new warehouse and sales and service branch being handed over to the company by developers in May 2025, just 14 months later.

“This new addition to the Scania network of company-owned workshops and parts warehouses is a logical step for us to maintain high levels of customer uptime and to further encourage the uptake of repair and maintenance contracts, assisted by Scania’s ever-growing array of vehicle productivity and efficiency programmes,” Streit says.

“Scania is a global industry leader in connected services, which allows us to monitor very accurately how vehicles are performing and provide timely scheduled servicing which prevents unplanned downtime, underpinning customer profitability potential.

“By increasing the capacity for regular maintenance in our own workshops, our customers will have access to the most advanced in-service vehicle management available.

“We know mining customers demand and depend on predictable uptime. This is underscored by the huge cost of unplanned downtime. We have configured our service scheduling and parts supplies to take account of this.

“For on-road customers, the uptime issue is no less important, and given WA’s geographic position establishing a larger parts warehouse and additional service capacity south of Perth is a necessary development for Scania, to underpin business growth and continued customer success using our products.”

The new Scania workshop comprises three work-bays and a maintenance pit, as well as a full complement of vehicle testing equipment including shakers and rollers for assessing suspension, braking and steering components.

The site is located close to major routes for easy accessibility, especially by larger WA-style combinations, with the maintenance pit designed to accept extra-long multi-trailer vehicles without decoupling. Large crossovers and hardstands will provide ease of access for vehicles up to 36.5m in length, such as B-triples.

Additionally, trailers and trailer equipment can be serviced on site along with vocational rigids (such as construction and jetvac trucks, as well as fire appliances), making life easier for customers by offering a one-stop-shop service destination.

“The new location is well positioned to support many of our customers in the busy City of Kwinana port area, providing a more convenient location for servicing and parts supply,” the newly appointed Hope Valley branch manager Michael Phipps says.

“We have assembled a team of enthusiastic technicians and parts specialists from within Scania WA as well as from the broader industry, and we are confident that this team will deliver maximum uptime for our customers, one of Scania’s core values.

“Scania Hope Valley will have plenty to offer truck drivers, with a comfortable lounge area and a number of resting locations ideal for catching some sleep while having their vehicle serviced or repaired. The workshop will operate from Monday to Friday from 7.30am to 5pm.”

The new warehouse replaces the Welshpool site and in addition to the additional floorspace now boasts an improved and optimised operational flow.

“It’s a more open site, so we can process and handle higher volumes into the future,” Scania national parts manager Matthew Pol says.

“We can now do more and do it better, with a staff of four and a supervisor. Previously, we could only process one container at a time, but now the footprint allows two or three containers to be processed, so we can get more volume through the building. We will be holding more product lines, to cope with the depth and expansion of our growing truck, bus and engines product, and for our time-critical mining customers.

“In the new building we have probably five to 10 years of growth capability, not only because of the expanded floorspace but we’ve also volumetrically doubled our height. The bulk racking has gone from 4 m to 8 m tall.”

Scania Australia now operates 10 company-owned sales and service branches, with three in Victoria, two each in New South Wales, Queensland and Western Australia, and one in South Australia, with additional dedicated sales representation in Tasmania.

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