Adigo Drives
Electrical solutions replacing fossil fuels
Adigo Drives is part of the Electrification Business Area and offers customised electric motor solutions and electric motor propulsion systems, including HMI products. Managing Director, Peter Mayer, perceives great business opportunities in petrol and diesel engines gradually being replaced by electric solutions.
Tell us a little bit about your operations
“Adigo’s offering can be summed up with the term systems integration. We help our customers through the electrification process for various special vehicles and construction equipment. Customers seek to remove exhaust gases and internal combustion engines from their products. In such cases, we offer the same functionality – but with electricity. These are concrete things on which we are working on – replacing fossil fuels with electric propulsion. About 80 percent comprises customised products and technical solutions developed in-house.”
What is the primary driving force in your segment?
“The megatrend is definitely carbon dioxide reduction. Fossil fuels are gradually being replaced by electric motors in special vehicles and construction equipment. This evident shift is being driven by many of the major, international companies in the segment. In this global wave of electrification, Adigo is contributing specialist expertise and serves as an active sounding board for customers’ transition towards a fossil-free society.”
What is the primary driving force in your segment?
“The megatrend is definitely carbon dioxide reduction. Fossil fuels are gradually being replaced by electric motors in special vehicles and construction equipment. This evident shift is being driven by many of the major, international companies in the segment. In this global wave of electrification, Adigo is contributing specialist expertise and serves as an active sounding board for customers’ transition towards a fossil-free society.”
Who are your customers primarily?
“Adigo’s customers are primarily OEM manufacturers of various types of mobile special vehicles and construction equipment. These can include forestry, road construction, building construction and agricultural equipment, trucks or buses. Different types of lifting equipment are also produced, as well as driverless carriages, trucks and medical technology machinery, such as x-ray systems where our solutions move patients and cameras. Our principal markets are the Nordic region and Germany, although we also accompany our customers further afield. So today I dare say we deliver technical solutions to just about the entire western world.”
What is your vision for the future?
“There will be a rapid and revolutionary trend in the electrification of special vehicles and construction equipment. Today, about 20 percent of Adigo’s volumes for some customers is electric. In just a few years, however, many of them believe that about 50 percent – and maybe as much as 70 percent – of their volumes will be electric. In this regard, Adigo has many in-house products and technical solutions that I believe will be well-suited to aiding our customers’ transition.”
Peter Mayer, Managing Director, Adigo Drives