Heiko Vietmeier

Torqeedo GmbH design, develops, manufactures, and commercializes electric boat drives. The firm offers ultralight drives, travel drives, cruise drives, deep blue and hybrid drives, power drives, and applications and spare parts. The company was founded by Friedrich Bobel and Christoph Ballin in 2005 and is headquartered in Gilching, Germany.

Cooperative Groupe Defontaine was created in 1946, it has continued to develop the industrial process of flash butt welding and the numerous applications that it opens up: Starter motor ring gears for the automotive industry where it remains the most economically viable solution, more than sixty years after its introduction. The world of rolling bearings through slewing rings with the widest variety of applications, from railway bogies and public works machinery to radar rotation systems and soft drink canning machines; Aeronautical jet engine stator rings where they constitute an economic replacement for ring-rolled parts more and more often. DEFONTAINE RINGS is focusing on promoting this process as a solution to the most diverse industrial customers' applications by developing the production of rings in a wide variety of alloy grades. At a time when materials are becoming increasingly rare, in greater demand and more expensive, DEFONTAINE RINGS can supply forged products that are as economical as possible in terms of material by sticking as close as possible to the required machining dimensions. With a proven track record for performance for large, medium and small-scale production, DEFONTAINE RINGS offers you its expertise as forging and machining specialists with a generalist vision of the industrial world.