Following a 12-month conversion and adaptation phase, Rosenbauer has completed the fire industry’s most modern vehicle plant. The central element in the Plant II Leonding is formed by two new, synchronized production lines for PANTHER ARFFs and AT municipal fire trucks. Assembly takes place using complete process synchronization and in line with the industrial standards employed in the automotive and mechanical engineering sectors.
Production at the Plant II Leonding commenced successfully in April and the first vehicles to come off the new production lines were completed only a few days after start-up. The initial PANTHER from Plant II Leonding was supplied to Sibu Airport in Malaysia, while the first AT was supplied to the Thüngen Fire Service in Germany.
The new facility is designed for the annual production of around 150 PANTHER ARFFs and 250 AT municipal fire trucks in one-shift operation, although this capacity can be raised using shift models. 2013 and 2104 have seen investments of over EUR12 million in the new plant, which is future with employ around 350 people. The new premises are situated only 3 km away from Rosenbauer Group headquarters and have an area of approximately 52,000 m² with some 15,000 m² of hall space and roughly 5,000 m² of office accommodation.
The Plant II Leonding provides an increase of around 60 per cent in the production floor space available at the Leonding location. And as Dr. Dieter Siegel, the Rosenbauer International AG Chairman, explains:" We have thus obtained the room that we urgently required. In addition we have been able to completely reshape our production. Intensive competition demands technical solutions that facilitate the faster manufacture of top quality fire service vehicles. With this extremely modern plant, we have already set the stage for a continuation of our business success in the hotly contested, international fire industry market."
