Avant Power battery factory in full swing with 500 electric loader batteries in [...]
Published 12/9, 2024 at 14:01Avant Power battery factory in full swing with 500 electric loader batteries in under six months
Battery developer and manufacturer Avant Power, the new subsidiary of loader manufacturer Avant Tecno Oy, has exceeded its strict targets with double the number of batteries being manufactured compared to the original plans.
Battery manufacturer Avant Power has just completed its 500th high power battery for an electric loader.
“Our battery production started in February this year, so we have made 500 batteries in about five and a half months,” says Mikko Piepponen, COO of Avant Power. The battery plant’s manufacturing capacity is ever increasing, as a second production line is currently being built next to the first line.
Located next to Avant Tecno’s loader factory, Avant Power has operated at record speed since the very beginning. The battery manufacturer has developed a completely new product and production simultaneously in only about two years. The Avant Group decided to start battery manufacturing because there were no batteries perfectly optimised for Avant loaders, and the company had enough creative expertise to deliver the solution itself.
Avant Power’s rapid product development and production can be explained by three factors. They are the company’s own excellent team and subcontractors, as well as the trust, support, and shoulders of the Avant Group. “Seamless cooperation with professional, flexible, and responsive subcontractors has made the whole thing possible. We have developed manufacturing methods together with our subcontractors, and they have thrown themselves fully into it, even though they did not know in advance how everything would work out. That spirit of doing things is exactly what we had been looking for. In the end, we managed to manufacture double the number of batteries compared to the original plan,” Piepponen says.
The battery factory’s cooperation with the Avant loader factory has been important. “The spirit of Avant is that everyone pulls together. Loader design has played a major role, as has the prototype workshop, marketing and sales, and the entire factory. We have all done this together,” Piepponen says.
The COO describes the battery factory’s own team as unique. “This would not be possible without good team spirit. Even a small team can be very strong when it is competent, flexible and dedicated. Now it’s time for this group to go on well-deserved summer holidays. After that, we will start a second production line, and new products are constantly being developed. We will tell you more about them later,” Piepponen promises.
