EQ for Tough Guys: Should Manufacturing Professionals Show Feelings?
Should manufacturing pros be as calm, cool, and collected as robots on the factory floor? Or should they embrace their feelings? "Must. Suppress. Rage!" is how this century’s best-known…
The Annual Meeting Point
Autumn is coming, business is rolling, and Subcontracting Trade Fair is approaching. Welcome to meet the Fortaco team at the annual Subcontracting Trade Fair in Tampere on 27-29 September.…
Smart potentialities
Innovative and fertile meeting with Kalmar in Ljungby, Sweden. Lars Hellberg, President & CEO and Rafal Sornek, Senior Vice President, Technology from the Fortaco team visited Kalmar’s…
Reflections from the Leadership Team
As we have entered the third quarter of the year, it is a great time to view back, reflect, value the lessons learned and gain some perspective, while proceeding forward on our mission.…
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.
The Tier 1 Revolution – Inevitable in the Off-Highway Industry
Fortaco's President & CEO Lars Hellberg sees the Tier1 revolution inevitable in the off-highway industry. OEMs either adapt to the new way of working - or perish.
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.