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AVANT POWER BATTERY
FACTORY IN FULL SWING
500 ELECTRIC LOADER BATTERIES IN UNDER 6 MONTHS
Battery developer and manufacturer Avant Power , the new subsidiary of loader manufacturer Avant Tecno Oy , has exceeded its strict targets . Double the number of batteries has been manufactured compared to the original plans .
YLÖJÄRVI , FINLAND – Battery manufacturer Avant Power has just completed its five-hundredth highpower battery for an electric loader .
“ Our battery production started in February this year , so we have made 500 batteries in about five and a half months ,” says Mikko Piepponen , COO of Avant Power . The battery plant ’ s manufacturing capacity is even increasing , as a second production line is currently being built next to the first line .
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 . The Avant Group decided to start battery manufacturing because there were no batteries perfectly optimized for Avant loaders in the world , and the company had enough creative expertise to conquer this new territory .
Double the pace with dedicated collaboration Avant Power ’ s rapid product development and production can be explained by three factors . They are the company ’ s own top team , excellent subcontractors , and the trust , support , and shoulders of the Avant Group .
“ Seamless cooperation with professional , flexible , and responsive subcontractors has made the whole thing possible . 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 ,” Piepponen says .
The battery factory ’ s cooperation with the Avant loader factory has been important . “ The spirit of Avant is that everyone pulls together . 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 ,” Piepponen says .
The COO describes the battery factory ’ s own team as unique . “ This would not be possible without good team spirit . Even a small team can be very strong when it is competent , flexible and dedicated . Now it ’ s time for this group to go on well-deserved summer holidays . After that , we will start a second production line , and new products are constantly being developed . We will tell you more about them later ,” Piepponen promises .
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