A Robot’s Grind
Fortaco Kurikka’s grinding robot keeps people happy: it lets welders weld, keeps costs under control, and ensures uniform quality. Ossi Antila and Tomi Metsä-Ketelä pose with Janne, the…
Fortaco Group invests in Steel Fabrication capacity
Cornerstone Ceremony in Gliwice, Poland 🧱 The cornerstone ceremony of our greenfield investment took place today in Knurow, Poland. With the state-of-the-art technologies for steel…
New factory in India
Fortaco and TATA AutoComp unveils cutting-edge cabin facility. Together we will provide safe and ergonomic vehicle cabins to the Indian and Asia markets. Safety cabin manufacturing is…
An Analog Guy with Digital Skills
Jaroslav Kocik can’t stop being lean – whether at work or at home. Jaroslav Kocik has been lean all his life, organizing, reorganizing, and doing things a little bit more efficiently…
FORTACO IN
BRIEF
Fortaco is the leading brand-independent strategic partner to the heavy off-highway equipment and marine industries, offering technology, vehicle cabins, steel fabrications and vehicle assemblies.
Fortaco Group has operations in multiple European Business Sites and Technology Hubs, which are supporting our global customers.
We benchmark ourselves to the automotive industry and standards to secure maximized value add for our customers as a true Tier 0.5 partner. We have the right quality, the right delivery accuracy and the right price.
Together, we want to reshape the way things are produced.
Our values
Respect
Fair and equal play, trust, teamwork, transparency, diversity
Simplicity
Straightforward, proactive, solution seeking, value adding, eliminating waste
Speed
Customer mindset, fast & intelligent solutions, hightest quality, learning mentality
Our Mission
We provide complete value chain solutions go global customers in the heavy off-highway equipment and marine industries.
KEY FIGURES
SAFETY &
QUALITY
Our commitments
80+
Years of experience in vehicle cabins
390+
Net sales (MEUR)
80.000
Tons of steel
40+
Years of experience in steel fabrications
60+
Welding robots
2.800
Employees globally
BUSINESS INSIGHTS
Learn more about our expertise and industries we work with.
Beyond Tier 1: Assembly outsourcing in the off-highway industry
Outsourcing is a great choice when a customer has a big-picture strategic interest in their approach to production. As technology is developing and products offered with four or more types of…
Wizards of Welding – Why welding matters
How Fortaco welding engineers see the invisible and deliver world-class welding to their customers.
Operational Excellence at Janow Lubelski
All Fortaco sites are actively involved in Operational Excellence programs to continuously improve their performance. Watch video of our Business Site Janow Lubelski.
Getting to lean – organically
Andrzej Wrona, Director for Operational Excellence, offers a great insight into Fortaco’s lean philosophy.
TECHNOLOGY
We are a flexible, reliable and an agile, yet effective partner in vehicle cabin development projects. We offer all-inclusive project solutions from design concepting to cost effective serial manufacturing.
FORTACO BUISARD CABINS
We support our customers in creating optimal solutions, which are tailored to their applications, starting from design to a full plug & play cabin. Over 70 years of experience and hundreds of successful products are showing our expertise and reliability as a vehicle cabin manufacturer.
STEEL FABRICATION
Fortaco is the largest manufacturer of steel fabrications in Europe. We focus on quality, delivery performance and productivity in our manufacturing operations. Based on our long history in steel processing, we have established ourselves as an industry benchmark.
ASSEMBLY
For industrial companies, digitalization and service offering have emerged as the key strategies to drive the growth. Digitalization and offering of services is a shift from the traditional product centric model of selling to focus on offering total solutions.