"VA6020": VAHLE Group expands to Innsbruck

Paul Vahle GmbH & Co KG is expanding its Austrian innovation and development center VAHLE Automation, based in Schwoich near Kufstein, with a new office in Innsbruck. In order to further expand the already good cooperation with the University of Innsbruck and the surrounding universities (Management Center Innsbruck and UMIT Tirol), the world's leading supplier of energy and data transmission systems for mobile applications is increasingly focusing on joint research projects and knowledge exchange with the new office called "VA6020". From now on, the latest and most promising drive, control, communication and energy supply systems will be developed and researched in the Tyrolean capital.

"We are very pleased to further expand our commitment in Austria and to take another important step with the expansion of the Schwoich Innovation and Development Center in the Tyrolean capital. Innsbruck offers ideal conditions for driving forward our pioneering and innovative solutions and technologies. We are convinced that our team here will do an outstanding job and see this investment as the right step towards a successful future. The best conditions for this have already been created," emphasizes VAHLE CEO Achim Dries.

Even closer cooperation with universities
With the expansion of the VAHLE Group's innovation lab in the Tyrolean capital, the site managers of VAHLE Automation are focusing on the proximity to the surrounding universities. "It is important to us to further expand these already well-established collaborations and thus provide the best possible support for research projects such as those in the field of hybrid energy storage with the Institute of Mechatronics at the University of Innsbruck. In addition, the office in Anichstraße will facilitate the handling of projects and the supervision of Bachelor's and Master's theses, such as those with the Department of Mechatronics at the MCI with a focus on data science, contactless energy carriers and power electronics," says Thomas Streicher, Managing Director of VAHLE Automation.

"We are delighted that the collaboration with the University of Innsbruck now also includes the supervision of a doctoral thesis in the field of high-frequency technology. This up-and-coming field of research with promising future potential in the area of wireless real-time networking of control units, machines and transport systems is being worked on and researched at our premises in Innsbruck," adds Peter Kohlschmidt, Managing Director of VAHLE Automation.

Hardware and software development in the center of the state capital 
With the new "VA6020" office - an original combination of the Innsbruck postal code and the first letters of VAHLE - the VAHLE Group has created the basis in the center of the university city to make optimum use of the workforce potential of HTL and university graduates in Innsbruck. Support in the search for suitable premises came from the Standortagentur Tirol. "In the future, a team of eight to nine people working in the field of hardware and software development will be accommodated in a modern office with an old building flair on a total of 130 square meters. When choosing the office space, a central location and good public transport connections were very important to us in order to attract motivated people from Innsbruck and the surrounding area," explains Michael Eckle, VAHLE Chief Innovation Officer and Managing Director of VAHLE Automation.
 

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