Schubeler and HEGGEMANN have announced their partnership in developing and manufacturing electric motors for the advanced air mobility industry.
Schubeler and HEGGEMANN are prominent members of the aerospace hub long existing in the Lippstadt/Paderborn area. Executives from both companies have known each other for years and the recent acceleration of Advanced Air Mobility has given them a chance to collaborate closely with each other. Schubeler designs and manufactures small series of electric propulsion systems, in particular electric motors, electric ducted fans and compressors, primarily for Aerospace and Advanced Air Mobility customers.
HEGGEMANN has a long history of designing and manufacturing aerospace components for Aerospace OEMs, such as landing gears, jet engine parts and structural assemblies. The partnership between Schubeler and HEGGEMANN stems from the natural complementarity of their respective expertise which, combined, creates a one-stop shop for aerospace and advanced air mobility wishing to procure electric motors designed and built to be certified with their aircraft.
According to Daniel Schubeler, Founder and Co-CEO, Technology, of the company with his namesake, “This partnership is a very important step towards making electric propulsion real. We experience that Advanced Air Mobility customers entrusting us with the development of their propulsive units are already focused on industrialization, even though it won’t happen before a couple of years. With Schubeler, they have the right partner for developing, prototyping and manufacturing small series production of these units but thanks to our partnership with HEGGEMANN, they can kick off the development phase with the confidence that there is a secured path for large volume production in accordance with aviation standards when the time comes.”
Robert Heggemann, Chairman of the Supervisory Board, HEGGEMANN AG, added: “Electric propulsion is an obvious application where we can deploy our long-standing expertise in manufacturing aviation-grade components and systems. Manufacturing aerospace-certified components presents unique technical challenges as everyone can read in the papers and HEGGEMANN brings to a relatively novel technology years of experience in manufacturing and servicing safety-critical aerospace components under its Production Organization Approvals. The partnership between Schubeler and HEGGEMANN offers prospective customers dual access to the most advanced knowledge in electric propulsion in the market with Schubeler and highly experienced and trusted industrial production capabilities with HEGGEMANN in full compliance with the most stringent aviation requirements.
Both partners further agreed that the partnership not only makes sense from an expertise standpoint but also from an industrial standpoint. Schubeler and HEGGEMANN facilities are a few minutes drive from each other and teams of both companies are experienced in working with each other since Schubeler tests its high voltage, higher power electric ducted fans at HEGGEMANN.
Daniel Schubeler concluded: “I’ve been wanting to work with Robert for years. Both of us and our teams are really excited by this unique combination of talents.”
