Colo\u00adgne \u2014 DEUTZ AG has signed an agree\u00adment to acquire 100% of the shares in SOBEK Group GmbH, ther\u00adeby ente\u00adring the defense market. The SOBEK Group specia\u00adli\u00adzes in drive systems for drones, among other things. The German company with three loca\u00adti\u00adons in Baden-W\u00fcrt\u00adtem\u00adberg and Hesse is active in seve\u00adral specia\u00adli\u00adzed fields of appli\u00adca\u00adtion, inclu\u00adding motor sports, aero\u00adspace and medi\u00adcal technology. <\/p>\n
Among other things, the company supplies seve\u00adral top Formula 1 and Formula E teams with high-perfor\u00admance pumps based on its elec\u00adtric motors and control elec\u00adtro\u00adnics. This is an attrac\u00adtive market that enables signi\u00adfi\u00adcant double-digit margins and demands the highest stan\u00addards. Howe\u00adver, the grea\u00adtest poten\u00adtial curr\u00adently lies in the drone busi\u00adness, which is growing stron\u00adgly due to geopo\u00adli\u00adti\u00adcal deve\u00adlo\u00adp\u00adments and the incre\u00adasing importance of unman\u00adned defense systems. With this acqui\u00adsi\u00adtion, DEUTZ is syste\u00adma\u00adti\u00adcally conti\u00adnuing its \u2018Dual+\u2019 stra\u00adtegy of broa\u00adde\u00adning its base, beco\u00adming less depen\u00addent on the cycli\u00adcal combus\u00adtion engine busi\u00adness and syste\u00adma\u00adti\u00adcally expan\u00adding its defense business. <\/p>\n
Sebas\u00adtian C. Schulte <\/strong>(photo \u00a9 Deutz), CEO of Deutz<\/strong>, explains: \u201cSobek gives us direct access to the rapidly growing defense market and crea\u00adtes the basis for stra\u00adte\u00adgi\u00adcally deve\u00adlo\u00adping it beyond the use of clas\u00adsic drives.\u201d The expan\u00adsion of the defense busi\u00adness is part of the corpo\u00adrate stra\u00adtegy to become less depen\u00addent on the cycli\u00adcal busi\u00adness with combus\u00adtion engines.<\/p>\n Drones are one of NATO\u2019s top areas of investment<\/strong><\/p>\n Drones are now one of NATO\u2019s top areas of invest\u00adment, as the requi\u00adre\u00adments profile of many armed forces is chan\u00adging: away from tradi\u00adtio\u00adnal plat\u00adforms and towards auto\u00adno\u00admous and highly mobile systems. Unman\u00adned aerial systems (UAVs) in parti\u00adcu\u00adlar are taking center stage, as they are conside\u00adred cost-effi\u00adci\u00adent, quickly available and opera\u00adtio\u00adnally flexi\u00adble. Mili\u00adtary requi\u00adre\u00adments are funda\u00admen\u00adtally chan\u00adging the exis\u00adting drone busi\u00adness: away from the volume-driven B2C busi\u00adness of Asian provi\u00adders and towards secu\u00adrity-criti\u00adcal Euro\u00adpean B2G solu\u00adti\u00adons that make Europe and Germany geopo\u00adli\u00adti\u00adcally independent. <\/p>\n For DEUTZ, the acqui\u00adsi\u00adtion is a logi\u00adcal next step on the path from compo\u00adnent manu\u00adfac\u00adtu\u00adrer to system provi\u00adder, from which other busi\u00adness segments will also bene\u00adfit. The highly inte\u00adgra\u00adted elec\u00adtric drives from SOBEK offer great syner\u00adgies with regard to alter\u00adna\u00adtive drives in the off-high\u00adway sector, parti\u00adcu\u00adlarly in control tech\u00adno\u00adlogy. The growing system respon\u00adsi\u00adbi\u00adlity in aero\u00adspace and defense opens up new potential. <\/p>\n With around 70 employees, SOBEK<\/strong> expects to gene\u00adrate sales in the low to mid double-digit million euro range with a signi\u00adfi\u00adcant double-digit EBIT margin in the current finan\u00adcial year 2025.<\/p>\n The tran\u00adsac\u00adtion is expec\u00adted to be comple\u00adted shortly.<\/p>\n Advi\u00adsor to Deutz AG: Belgravia <\/strong><\/p>\n Belgra\u00advia advi\u00adsed on this tran\u00adsac\u00adtion as exclu\u00adsive buy-side M&A advisor <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Colo\u00adgne \u2014 DEUTZ AG has signed an agree\u00adment to acquire 100% of the shares in SOBEK Group GmbH, ther\u00adeby ente\u00adring the defense market. The SOBEK Group specia\u00adli\u00adzes in drive systems for drones, among other things. The German company with three loca\u00adti\u00adons in Baden-W\u00fcrt\u00ad\u00adte\u00adm\u00ad\u00adberg and Hesse is active in seve\u00adral specia\u00adli\u00adzed fields of appli\u00adca\u00adtion, inclu\u00adding motor [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56729,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1366],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en"],"yoast_head":"\n
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