This renewable energy primarily powers the plant's operations, reducing the company's reliance on external energy sources and thereby decreasing its carbon footprint.

Hübner is actively exploring opportunities to deploy its hydropneumatic suspension system in electric commercial vehicles, with ongoing discussions taking place with bus manufacturers to incorporate the technology into future vehicle platforms. Meanwhile, the company will jointly showcase a demonstrator truck with this new airless suspension system at the next IAA 2026.  

He takes over from Uwe Bittroff, Hübner Group Managing Director, who was looking after ATG on an interim basis.

We spoke with Tim Dortans, Vice President Global Sales – Mobility Road at Hübner, who explained the strategy for growth in two key markets, Turkey and India.

This technology integrates holographic optical elements directly into vehicle’s windows, transforming them into interactive displays to provide passengers with real-time information, such as upcoming stops, nearby attractions, and advertisements.

Nora Oberländer, the grandniece of the company's owner, is set to join the HÜBNER Group's management team on March 1, 2025, bringing her expertise to the leadership of the family business.

As of January 1, 2025, the ramp and lift business (Hübner Transportation GmbH) will be fully integrated into the Hübner Group.

The Hübner Group, which unveiled its ‘hydropneumatic’ suspension and damping system, which works without the use of compressed air at Busworld 2023, is seeking OE partners to build the first vehicle prototype. Any manufacturer interested should get in touch.

“HÜBNER is more than just a supplier of articulated bus systems,” announces Uwe Bittroff, Managing Director of the HÜBNER Group of Kassel at Busworld Europe last month. “As a global supplier, we offer our customers integrated, customized solutions."

Akia is developing a 36-metre-long high-capacity battery-powered electric vehicle, called ‘TransEra’, which can operate on normal roads without the need for special lanes, tracks or guidance systems.

Manufactured in Kassel, this hybrid version means operators no longer must choose between manual or electrically operated ramps, with both combined in one unit.

This new division is the working combination of two formerly independent companies, V.S.E. Vehicle Systems Engineering B.V. (VSE) of Veenendaal, near Utrecht, Netherlands and Hemscheidt Fahrwerktechnik GmbH & Co. KG of Haan, Germany.

Owner Reinhard Hübner announced the new Management Board is as follows: Uwe Bittroff, Head of Bus Gangway Systems in the Mobility Road division; Ingolf Cedra, Head of the Material Solutions and Photonics division; Kai Mentel, Senior Vice President of Mobility Rail and Claus Schäfer, Head of Corporate Finance.

This latest development in the SensIQ product range uses ultrasonic sensor technology to bring greater safety for city bus passengers as well as reduced downtime for operators.

The Articulated Bus Steering Control (ABSC) is a new steering control system from Hübner designed to enable new passenger transport solutions in the built environment to extend the length of an articulated bus to 36 metres and to offer a passenger capacity like that of a tram or light railway system.

Articulated systems specialist, Hübner Group of Kassel, Germany, has launched the SensIQ product line, aimed at increasing the safety of automated bus doors.

Hübner GmbH & Co KG (Hübner Group) of Kassel Germany has acquired Dutch electro-hydraulic chassis steering specialist, V.S.E. Vehicle Systems Engineering B.V. of Veenendaal, Netherlands, for an undisclosed sum from Weber-Hydraulik Group, which has owned VSE since 2014.

Hübner Group has developed a new TÜV-approved driver protection safety-glass screen with Kassel Public Transport Company which, so far, have been installed in 78 of KVG's buses operating in Kassel.

Gerald Steinhoff (52) has been appointed as general manager for financial and administrative affairs at Kassel-based Hübner Group.

A new sales company, Hubner Korea Ltd of Seoul, South Korea, has been set up to focus especially in marketing products of the Hübner Material Solutions business segment, which focuses on sales of elastomers, insulation, and composite materials such as fibre-reinforced plastics for a range of industrial and transportation industries.

Kassel-based Hübner GmbH presented a newly developed electronic steering system for city buses at Busworld of more than 30 metres in length, which, it said, should be implemented by bus manufacturers, in practice, starting next year.

Articulation systems specialist, Hübner GmbH & Co KG has added to its product portfolio for the bus and rail industries with the acquisition of Gummi-Welz GmbH und Co KG, a producer of rubber sealing, insulation and isolation materials and glass-fibre reinforced plastic products for the transportation industry.

Gangway systems specialist for the bus and rail industries, Hübner GmbH & Co KG, is building a new factory for the manufacture of elastic polymer material products in Dunlap.

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