Fortaco – shaping the future for off-highway machines
Fortaco is a strategic Tier 0.5 partner for leading OEMs in the off-highway equipment industry.
With more than 60 industry-leading customers in different industry segments, we deliver safe, high-quality and reliable solutions while driving the industry towards net-zero emissions. We also have a solid track record in high flexibility.
This is Fortaco
Fortaco is the leading full-solution provider for OEMs in the off-highway machine industries. Pioneering the design and production of assemblies, cabins, steel fabrications, and zero emission solutions, we offer cutting-edge technology for enhanced productivity. We empower off-highway machines to use fossil-free steel and our customers to optimize their operations and move towards a greener future.
Collaborating with industry-leading OEMs, we specialize in full lifecycle solutions from research and technology to the design and production of their components and machines. Our innovative technologies extend to lightweight design, ensuring efficiency without compromising on durability and functionality.
We have operations in multiple business sites across the globe which enable flexible and reliable support for our customers.
We make off-highway machines perform
We combine our specialized technology competences and profound industrial understanding to meet our customers’ needs.
We offer attractive manufacturing capabilities, we have the willingness and ability to shape the technology and industry offering, we have a wide range of products to be the preferred Tier 0.5 partner.
We develop our customers’ business as if it was our own.
We shape the way things are produced.
We want to shape the whole industry.
Together we shape your industry.
Strategy
Fortaco is active with the green environmental transformation and one of our strategic targets is to transform the off-highway equipment industry into emissions free. The Technology & Zero Emissions team is developing future business offerings, including fossil-free steel, lightweight design, integrated thermal management, and battery pack weldments and assemblies.
A new modern ERP platform investment for SAP S/4 Hana is currently on-going.
Group Leadership Team
Our Group Leadership Team brings together decades of experience from the off-highway, manufacturing and technology industries. We lead with a clear vision — to strengthen customer competitiveness, ensure operational excellence and support sustainable growth.
We believe that great leadership starts with responsibility — for our people, our partners and our results. Every decision we make is guided by long-term thinking, respect for individuals and a focus on creating real value for our customers.
Leadership Contacts
Safety, Quality & Environment
At Fortaco, safety and quality are at the heart of everything we do. We are committed to providing a safe, injury-free workplace and to delivering reliable, defect-free products that exceed customer expectations.
Our focus on continuous improvement and full compliance ensures that we operate responsibly and sustainably in everything we do.
Code of Conduct
Fortaco’s reputation is built on our values: Respect, Simplicity and Speed. These values guide how we work, make decisions and interact with customers, partners and each other.
Our Code of Conduct defines how we do business responsibly across all countries and operations — ensuring compliance with laws, ethical standards and environmental and social responsibility.
All employees with leadership duties are required to actively and purposefully promote a leadership culture that is in accordance with Fortaco’s values and the spirit of Code of Conduct.
Read our Code of Conduct
Whistleblowing
Fortaco is committed to transparency, high business ethics and responsible operations. We value the safety and respect of everyone affected by our business – employees, partners, customers and communities.
Our whistleblowing channel enables you to report serious concerns confidentially and, if you choose, anonymously. The service is operated by an independent external partner, and all communication is encrypted and securely handled.
You do not need proof of your suspicion, but all reports must be made in good faith.
Commitment to
sustainability
At Fortaco, sustainability is more than a responsibility — it’s part of how we operate and grow together with our customers.
Our actions focus on the environment, our people and strong governance to build a better future through smarter engineering and responsible business practices.
Key Figures 2025
Safety &
Quality
Our commitments
80+
Years of experience in vehicle cabins and assemblies
40+
Years of experience in
steel fabrications
348
Net sales (MEUR)
80+
Welding robots
80,000
Tons of steel
2,500
Employees globally
Industries served
From heavy machinery to defense, our solutions are trusted by leading OEMs to deliver safety, performance and long-term value.
From heavy machinery to defense, our solutions are trusted by leading OEMs to deliver safety, performance and long-term value.
Fortaco entered the agricultural segment nearly a decade ago when it formed alliances with cabin manufacturers in Europe and Asia. In 2023, Fortaco acquired full ownership of the French cabin manufacturer, Buisard, and the Austrian manufacturer, MauserCABS, and thus significantly increased activity in the agriculture market. Fortaco currently produces vehicle cabins in factories located in Austria, Finland, France and Slovakia. A new greenfield factory in Gliwice, Poland is now starting steel fabrication for Fortaco’s European agriculture OEMs.
In Pune, India, Fortaco is providing safety cabins for the Indian and Asian markets in co-operation with TATA AutoComp. Cabin manufacturing is done by TATA AutoComp and it is based on Fortaco’s cabin design and manufacturing technology. Production started in 2024.
Fortaco benchmarks itself to automotive manufacturing standards and has embraced robotization in its plants, offers significant supply chain advantages, and helps customers mitigate risks with its ability to manufacture similar products in multiple plants.
Today, Fortaco serves approximately one dozen leading manufacturers in Europe and Asia, including Bobard, Bobcat, Claas, Game, Hirl, Manitou, Preciculture, RigiTrac, Sauerburger, Kubota, Wacker Neuson, and Aebi. Through Business Site Breitenau operations we also supply John Deere in the United States.
Fortaco continues to expand its footprint, positioning itself to support agriculture companies on their global journeys.
A variety of applications like sprayers, tractors, balers, agricultural wheel loaders and telehandlers, combine and harvester machines are used widely in the agricultural sector applications where Fortaco’s solutions play a critical role.
Fortaco has decades-long relationships in the construction equipment sector, serving top OEMs including Bobcat, Dynapac, Brokk, Hamm, Hitachi, Hyundai, Kaiser, Liebherr, Mecalac, Manitou, Potain, Sandvik, Volvo, Wacker Neuson, Wirtgen, and Yanmar.
From its factories in Janów Lubelski (Poland) and in Breitenau (Austria), Fortaco produces applications for excavators, bulldozers, graders, wheel loaders, dump trucks, pavers, compactors, telehandlers, piling, crushing, and screening equipment for material management.
Business Site Breitenau offers literally thousands of configurations in plug-and-play cabins, including HVAC systems, seats, wiring harnesses for the US and European markets. Its products are also renowned for great rust protection, with coating and painting done par excellence.
Fortaco’s Janów Lubelski site has made major investment in automated production lines with welding robots for two-piece booms, which have enabled it to quickly take on capacity for customers forced to reconfigure production in light of geopolitical events. A double spindle machining center is next in the investment queue.
Fortaco supports a wide range of off-highway equipment and infrastructure applications, offering solutions that include excavators, bulldozers, graders, wheel loaders, dump trucks, pavers, compactors, telehandlers, piling systems, and both crushing and screening equipment—demonstrating its strong footprint across the full spectrum of the construction equipment market.
Fortaco has been active in the container handling segment since the company’s inception. It offers applications for seaports and terminals, including ship-to-shore gantry cranes, straddle and shuttle carriers, reach stackers, empty container handlers, terminal tractors, automated guided vehicles, as well as parts for mobile harbor cranes to enable the addition of spreader and lift containers.
From its factories in Narva (Estonia), Kurikka (Finland), Wrocław (Poland), Holič (Slovakia), Fortaco serves customers in Europe, China, and the United States, including Hiab, Hyster-Yale, Kalmar, Konecranes, sfPORTEQ, Camblift, Liebherr, and Taylor.
Fortaco’s strengths in designing cabins, combined with its diverse geographic footprint, gives it the ability to handle many product variations under short lead times. To enable this, Fortaco has made investments in unique manufacturing lines for reach stacker booms and frames, as well as in robots, machining centers, and paint shops.
Fortaco is positioned to serve OEMs wherever they are located and is uniquely positioned to support its customers globally as they face the challenges of changes in legislation and logistics.
Fortaco defense products are deployed throughout the world by the OEMs Fortaco serves at business sites in the European Union.
For its defense clients, Fortaco applies its full-systems and assembly expertise gained in the private sector to meet the rigorous defense-sector requirements of safety, quality, supply management, and security compliance, including separate production lines, restricted access and visitor vetting.
Fortaco’s history in the defence sector dates back to 1943, when a factory was established for the repair of heavy weapons. In the 1960s, production was expanded to ammunition body shells for heavy weapon systems. By the 1980s, operations extended to cover the repair and maintenance of armoured vehicles, followed by the manufacturing of heavy mortars, field guns, and specialized equipment for the air force in the 1990s. In 2006, Fortaco started industrial cooperation with Patria and the Polish Ministry of Defense for the manufacturing of suspension frames, including complete assembly of the brake system, gear box and wheel hubs. Since then, the defense business has become a significant part of Fortaco, with a delivery scope that includes working as an R&D partner to defense OEMs, welding, painting, and the assembly of cabins, steel structures and assembly services.
Fortaco applies its efficiency, knowledge, and proven experience in the production of innovative defense vehicles and is capable of producing complete small and large welded steel structures, chassis, frames, and bodies. With business sites in the European Union, Fortaco enables defense contractors to fulfill industrial cooperation requirements.
Europe’s Nordic region leads the world in the manufacture of cut-to-length forestry equipment. Due to the region’s sustainable and renewable approach to forestry, companies like Fortaco and the OEMs it serves have pioneered cut-to-length and other technologies that result in minimal environmental impact and maximum efficiency in forest harvesting and the transport of cut trees from the forest.
Specialists in steel components and cabins, Fortaco offers applications in mechanized wood harvesting, handling, and processing. These include cut-to-length forest harvesters and forwarders, on-road forestry cranes, and related equipment. From its factories in Kurikka (Finland), Narva (Estonia), Breitenau (Austria), Wrocław (Poland), and Holíč (Slovakia), Fortaco produces for its OEM customers, including Komatsu, EcoLog, Hiab, John Deere, Konrad, Logset, Penz Crane, TW, and others.
Fortaco is well positioned to serve the expected growth in the forestry industry and develop pioneering technologies that directly serve its clients in Europe and, indirectly, the rest of the world.
Fortaco provides a wide range of applications for mechanized wood harvesting, handling, and processing—such as cut-to-length forest harvesters and forwarders, on-road forestry cranes, terminal and mobile cranes, and other supporting equipment—strengthening Fortaco’s role as a key partner in sustainable forestry solutions.
For 25 years, Fortaco has led in the municipal segment, producing cabins for small tractors and articulated machines up to 60 horsepower.
Fortaco’s plant in Kurikka, Finland, produces cabins for Wille Machines, the Nordic’s largest manufacturer of municipal machinery in the 2-7 tons weight class.
From Business Site Breitenau, Austria, Fortaco serves manufacturers around the globe, including John Deere, Kubota, Aebi, and Amazone.
Fortaco is known for its development process, working closely with manufacturers for machines that accommodate the multitude of attachments that municipalities require: mowers, spreaders, sweepers, plow blades, leaf vacuums, loaders, and backhoes.
Fortaco has set a new standard, producing the world’s most efficient AC system with airflow efficiency exceeding 70 percent for tractors of only 25 horsepower. This system, developed to meet the US market requirements, will also be available on the European market.
Fortaco has been in the material handling business for nearly 20 years, long specializing in the processing of high-strength steel critical to material handling customers.
Working from eight European business sites, Fortaco serves the world’s leading material handling OEMs, including Hiab, Hyster-Yale, Jungheinrich, Kalmar, Konecranes, Liebherr, Linde, Manitou, Mantsinen, Palfinger, Still, Terex, and Taylor.
Fortaco’s flexibility gives it the ability to supply a wide range of customer needs, with applications from small forklifts to large cranes. Fortaco offers OEMs flexibility in a volatile marketplace, helping its customers reduce their investment needs and maximize their return on capital employed. Committed to serving its customers wherever they are in the world, Fortaco continues to expand its global footprint.
A wide range of material handling applications are supported across retail, food and beverage, logistics, and industrial sectors. These include equipment for cargo and material movement such as industrial and mobile cranes, light-, medium-, and heavy forklifts, and on-road load handling equipment—like loader cranes, forestry cranes, and truck mounted forklifts—demonstrating Fortaco’s comprehensive capabilities in the material handling domain.
Fortaco’s customers lead the world in advanced mining operations. In support of these OEMs, Fortaco produces equipment for exploration, tunneling, surface- and underground mining, and rock excavation applications, including key parts of drill rigs, mechanical cutting equipment, mobile crushers and screens, surface drilling rigs, underground drill rigs, loaders, and dump trucks.
From its business sites in Janów Lubelski (Poland), Wrocław (Poland), Kurikka (Finland), Sastamala (Finland), and Narva (Estonia), Fortaco serves OEMs like Epiroc, Sandvik, Caterpillar, Normet, and Volvo.
Multiple business sites, each with a different specialty, give Fortaco the ability to weather the cycles which affect the mining industry, while still producing highly complex products of superior quality. Fortaco continues to invest heavily in the most modern welding and machining capabilities in Europe, including two five-axis machining centers and sophisticated welding robots capable of producing frames for machines with over 60-tonne payloads. This investment has paid off: In 2023, Sandvik named Fortaco Janów Lubelski its Supplier of the Year.
A wide range of equipment is supported across all mining segments, from exploration and tunneling to both surface and underground mining, as well as rock excavation—demonstrating Fortaco’s full-spectrum expertise in the most demanding applications of the mining industry.
Recycling is not yet a big market segment, but it is a growing one, and Fortaco actively serves its OEM customers whose portfolios also include recycling products.
Through its factories in Narva (Estonia), Kurikka (Finland), and Wrocław (Poland), Fortaco produces on-road and mobile recycling cranes, skip loaders, and advanced operator cabins for customers like Hiab and Mantsinen.
Fortaco applications also include screens and crushers, hooklifts, tail lifts, and truck mounted forklifts, highlighting Fortaco’s capability to serve the diverse and evolving needs of the recycling industry.
Fortaco effectively leverages its manufacturing experience in other segments to offer state-of-the art products in the recycling segment, and it looks for growth to go hand in hand with the segment itself. A wide range of industrial recycling applications are supported, including solutions for transportation companies, collection points, waste transfer stations, and processing centres.
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 to global customers in the heavy off-highway equipment industry.
Watch now to see how we can shape your industry together.
