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Fortaco Technology transforms complex ideas into manufacturable solutions.
We combine design intelligence with production excellence, making Fortaco a true R&D partner for OEMs. By uniting engineering and manufacturing under one roof, we simplify product development, cut costs and accelerate your time to market — delivering innovation that’s ready to build.
R&D and co-development services
Fortaco acts as a full R&D partner for OEMs in SteelFab and Assembly areas – taking complete responsibility for both design and manufacturing.
Our Design-for-Manufacturing (DfM) and Design-for-Assembly (DfA) expertise ensures every concept is practical, efficient, and ready for production.
We turn your product ideas into manufacturable solutions that meet real-world demands from day one.
Fortaco SmartCabin
Fortaco’s SmartCab system brings the automotive world to the off-highway industry.
SmartCab is equipped with state-of-the-art automotive technology designed to serve the demanding off-highway sector. It integrates cloud connectivity, infotainment, cabin controls, HVAC, camera systems, and monitors into one easy-to-use, hardware-independent platform.
Developed as a modular cabin concept, SmartCab includes all generic cabin functions, from wipers and lighting to climate control and displays, ready to use and seamlessly adaptable to customer needs. With up to 300 programmable features, OEMs can focus on differentiation and performance while Fortaco provides the proven, production-ready foundation.
Fortaco is the first to offer a hardware-independent system in this market, bringing flexibility, reliability, and cost efficiency to cabin development like never before.
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Simplifying the R&D process
Fortaco takes on the complex parts of the R&D process, allowing customers to focus on core innovations and brand-defining technologies.
By delivering production-ready designs, we shorten the time from concept to implementation and reduce the engineering workload without compromising quality or creativity.
Prototype and serial production integration
Fortaco bridges the gap between design and production.
Both prototype and serial manufacturing are handled in the same facilities, ensuring a seamless transition from initial idea to mass production.
This integrated approach guarantees consistency, quality, and speed – helping customers reach the market faster with tested, validated solutions.
Minimizing complexity and costs for Fortaco customers
Our technology teams work across all Fortaco industry segments. We bring costs down for our customers by taking the complexity out of R&D and simplifying supply chains. Fortaco provides even full R&D outsourcing services.
We support our customers’ journeys to net-zero emissions. We are active with the green environmental transformation and one of our strategic targets is to transform the off-highway equipment industry into an emissions-free industry.
We are developing future business offerings, including low-emission steel as well as lightweight and high-strength steel components. We develop environmentally friendly steel structures.
We support our customers’ journeys to net-zero emissions. We are active with the green environmental transformation and one of our strategic targets is to transform the off-highway equipment industry into an emissions-free industry.
We are developing future business offerings, including low-emission steel as well as lightweight and high-strength steel components. We develop environmentally friendly steel structures.
Teams behind innovations
Behind every Fortaco solution is a team of experts who turn complex challenges into practical, production-ready results.
Our teams combine engineering know-how, manufacturing expertise, and deep industry understanding. Together, they develop technologies that improve performance, reliability, and sustainability across the off-highway equipment industry.
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The Cabin Technology team provides complete project handling. The teams in Austria, Finland, France, Slovakia and India support customers during various phases of product lifecycle, in product development, and new product implementation with design concepts, engineered solutions, industrialization, and customized manufacturing services. This end-to-end capability ensures smooth execution, clear ownership, and reliable results from early development to serial production.
Defense Technology
The Defense Technology team develops complex and high-tech solutions for defense segment customers. Fortaco offers the whole integrated solution, combining cabin hardware and customer-specific applications, including control systems. Fortaco is responsible for meeting the stringent performance requirements. The flagship customer product is Beowulf – an amphibious vehicle, where the front and rear cabins are designed and manufactured by Fortaco.
System Technology
Our System Technology team has introduced Fortaco SmartCabin. The SmartCabin concept is a modular control system that enables the use of equipment provided by different suppliers by integrating them into one easy-to-use platform. The control system integrates cloud connectivity, infotainment, cabin controls, HVAC, camera systems and displays. Fortaco’s SmartCabin system speeds up a customer’s design and product development process and significantly reduces the time and costs spent by the customer on product development.
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Fortaco’s Manufacturing Technology team is pioneering production with innovative solutions that leverage the latest in sustainable materials and processes. The team is working to determine the effects of low-emission steel on manufacturing processes and develop customer’s supply chain with greener steel. By integrating sustainable materials into our processes, we help OEMs achieve their sustainability goals with verifiable data and real results. We verify that the use of greener steel has no impact on production processes and make all CO2 reductions transparent and measurable at a component level.
We make off-highway machines perform for industries and our planet
Fortaco Technology transforms complex ideas into manufacturable solutions. We combine design and manufacturing, making Fortaco a true R&D partner for OEMs worldwide. We simplify product development, cut costs and accelerate time to market.
We turn your product ideas into manufacturable solutions that meet real-world demand from day one.
Efficiency and cost optimization
Through an integrated workflow combining design and manufacturing, Fortaco helps customers achieve maximum efficiency and cost control.
We reduce R&D expenses and project timelines while delivering tested, validated and production-ready solutions faster.
The result: measurable business impact through smarter processes, lower risks and shorter time-to-market.
