Avant Power Battery Factory Marks Production Milestone
Published: 27/9
Avant Power, the battery developer and manufacturer subsidiary of loader manufacturer Avant Tecno Oy, has doubled its original planned production goal for its first six months, marking completion of its 500th high-power battery. The pace of production will accelerate even more, as a second production line is currently being installed. Located next to Avant Tecno’s loader factory, Avant Power has operated at record speed since the very beginning of the subsidiary. The battery manufacturer has developed a completely new product and production simultaneously in only about two years.
“Seamless cooperation with professional, flexible, and responsive subcontractors has made the whole thing possible,” says Avant Power COO Mikko Piepponen. “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,”
The battery factory’s cooperation with the nearby Avant loader factory has been important as well. “The spirit of Avant is that everyone pulls together,” Piepponen says. “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.”
