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Hybrid
Tow Tractors within a very short time“, Dr. Baur says, “we have finally broken out of the newcomer status in the GSE business“. On this basis VOLK will continue to push the competition in the baggage tow tractor business
in the future. Dr. Baur points out that for a long time there was only one German manufacturer of hybrid tow tractors. “It is obvious that this hardly promotes innovation and efficiency”. In view of the noticeably increased
competition among airlines and ground handling companies, however, the central challenge for tow tractor manufacturers over the next few years will be to offer technically first-rate tow tractors under the constraints of rapidly increasing
cost pressures.
VOLK feels it is excellently prepared for this trend. Airlines and ground handling companies are responsible for approximately 40 percent of the company’s total turnover today. However major automobile
manufacturers such as Audi, BMW or Daimler-Chrysler dominated the VOLK customer portfolio until the end of the 90’s. Particularly these companies always put enormous cost pressure on their suppliers while they never accepted any
compromise when it came to the reliability and durability of tow tractors used for internal transport tasks.
“So it is somewhat ironic“, Dr. Baur says, “that our business in the past, which was somewhat unrelated
to airports, helps us today – under changed conditions – to be successful in the GSE business“. This was obvious during the three week test phase in Düsseldorf. Primarily the excellent quality and performance
characteristics of the products as well as the comparably low cost price were the decisive factors that enabled VOLK to assert itself against all the
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