liability company fate liquidated predecessor neoman bus successor none founded 2008 defunct 2014 headquarters pilsting bavaria germany area served international products buses trolleybuses highway coaches special purpose buses number of employees 220 website www.viseon bus.com a viseon coach owned by ata ehir belediyespor women s football club in istanbul turkey . viseon bus gmbh was a german bus trolleybus and coach manufacturer based in pilsting bavaria germany . 1 it was established in july 2008 1 and in april 2009 it took over the former neoman bus and coach production facility of man truck & bus in pilsting and a workforce of 220 employees . 2 that plant had been manufacturing vehicles under the neoplan brand owned by man since 2001 . because of financial difficulties viseon bus ceased production in 2013 and was liquidated in 2014 . 3 viseon made buses for use in urban public transport use at airports use as inter city coaches and for other purposes . coach models included double deckers as well as single deckers . 4 in march 2010 the company secured a contract to supply 12 articulated trolleybuses for a new trolleybus system to be constructed to serve the campus of the new king saud bin abdulaziz university for health sciences in riyadh saudi arabia . 5 6 later reports indicated the vehicles were viseon model lt20 . 7 8 the first was demonstrated on the solingen trolleybus system in june 2011 9 and the full series entered service in riyadh in april 2013 . 8 viseon also built two two axle trolleybuses for the trolleybus system of modena italy in 2010 . 10 modena had placed the order for these model n6216 vehicles in 2008 with viseon s predecessor neoplan under an option from an earlier contract but they were actually built by viseon bus 11 in 2009 10 and delivered in july 2010 . 12 in december 2012 china youngman automobile group co. ltd. youngman acquired a 74.9 percent stake in viseon 13 concluding implementation of an agreement signed on 1 august 2012 . 4 since 1994 youngman had had licensing agreements with viseon s predecessor neoplan owned by man after 2001 under which it was able to adapt neoplan designs and build buses to those designs for the chinese and southeast asian market . 4 at one time the chinese production was named jinhua neoplan vehicle co. ltd. 13 or neoplan jinhua 4 before simply taking the youngman name . this partnership carried over to viseon when it was established in 2008 as a spin off of part of man s neoplan branded bus production . 13 at the time of the 2012 agreement youngman was one of china s largest bus manufacturers building more than 4 800 buses per year in past years . 4 it was planned that development and construction of buses would continue at viseon s factory in pilsting and envisaged that youngman models would also be developed and built there for the european market . 4 the company introduced a new double deck coach model in june 2012 a 12.6 metre 41 ft three axle model designated ldd13 . 4 however because of financial difficulties viseon bus filed for insolvency in april 2013 . 14 its more than 200 employees were terminated in june 2013 and the vacated factory complex in pilsting was sold in may 2014 . 3 the pilsting plant had been in operation for 40 years since 1973 and at neoplan s peak the company had employed more than 500 workers there . 3 see also edit list of trolleybus manufacturers man se references edit a b webb mary ed . 2009 . jane s urban transport systems 2009 2010 p. 717 . coulsdon surrey uk jane s information group . isbn 978 0 7106 2903 6 . introducing the viseon bus gmbh . viseon bus gmbh . 7 october 2009 . archived from the original on 12 december 2009 . retrieved 2015 02 04 . a b c endg ltiges aus f r viseon definitive closure for viseon in german . bayerischer rundfunk . 6 may 2014 . retrieved 2015 02 09 . a b c d e f g g bel stefan september 2012 . vorschau busse der iaa nutzfahrzeuge preview buses of the international motor show for commercial vehicles . stadtverkehr in german . freiburg germany ek verlag . pp. 9 10 . issn 0038 9013 . trolleybus magazine no. 292 july august 2010 p. 93 . national trolleybus association uk . issn 0266 7452 . viseon gets order for electric bus system in saudi arabia . march 2010 . archived from the original on 17 july 2011 . retrieved 2015 02 04 . weltpremiere viseon lt trolleybus in neuer dimension . viseon . archived from the original on 21 february 2014 . retrieved 2015 02 04 . a b trolleybus magazine no. 310 july august 2013 p. 110 . hondius harry july august 2011 . rapid transit viseon stellt in solingen seinen lt20 vor rapid transit viseon presented its lt20 in solingen . stadtverkehr in german . freiburg germany ek verlag . pp. 30 33 . issn 0038 9013 . viseon is building trolleybuses for modena . viseon bus gmbh . 2009 . archived from the original on 12 december 2009 . retrieved 2015 02 09 . trolleybus magazine no. 299 september october 2011 p. 115 . trolleybus magazine no. 295 january february 2011 p. 19 . a b c trolleybus magazine no. 309 may june 2013 p. 76 . after filing for insolvency viseon wants to continue business operation talks with investors start . viseon bus gmbh . april 2013 . archived from the original on 19 december 2013 . retrieved 2015 02 09 . external links edit web archive of viseon bus website english version wikimedia commons has media related to viseon buses . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title viseon bus & oldid 659172431 categories defunct bus manufacturerstrolleybus manufacturersgerman companies established in 2008vehicle manufacturing companies disestablished in 2014manufacturing companies of germanyhidden categories cs1 german language sources de commons category with local link same as on wikidata navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom 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