Cobus Industries

Cobus Industries GmbH
legal form	GmbH
founding	1978
Seat	Wiesbaden , Germany
management	Patricia Vasconcelos
Number of employees	37 (2015)
sales	72 million euros (2012)
Branch	Automotive industry
Website	www.cobus-industries.de

Cobus Industries GmbH , formerly Contrac GmbH , based in Wiesbaden - Delkenheim , was founded in 1978 and is now a joint venture between the Portuguese CaetanoBus - Fabricação Carroçarias SA (59%) and the German Daimler Truck AG (41%). From 1989 the company developed the Cobus airport bus under a Swiss license . The Cobus is a bus specially designed for airport aprons.

history

The first Cobus was developed - still without using this brand name - by the Swiss companies Carrosserie Hess and FBW for Zurich Airport and put into operation in 1978. The vehicle had a full welded aluminum - body . The chassis consisted of a powered end with placed on front motor, which appeared on the front axle, and a rolling stool for the passenger compartment. The concept not only convinced Zurich Airport, but also Jürgen Kamps, the then managing director of Contrac. On November 30, 1989, Hess and Contrac signed a contract, which transferred the rights for the worldwide sales and assembly of bus kits to Contrac. The Portuguese manufacturer Salvador Caetano, where the buses were assembled, was also involved. At that time, Hess had already developed the second generation of airport buses with a bolted aluminum body based on the patented CO-BOLT system, and FBW had now been merged into NAW . Contrac also gave the airport buses the brand name "Cobus", which was used from the first license delivery.

Cobus has been the market leader in the airport apron bus segment since 1990, with a world market share of initially 50%, which rose to over 75% by 2016, with annual sales of around 400 units worldwide.

production

Cobus Industries has all parts outsourced. The chassis are supplied by EvoBus , the superstructures by the partner Caetano Bus in Portugal with aluminum kits from the Swiss company Hess. The bus structure is made from screwed aluminum profiles and is therefore corrosion-free. The final assembly of the buses is carried out by Caetano Bus in Portugal. From there the buses are brought directly to the end customers.

Models

Cobus 3000

Cobus 2700 - TXL Berlin-Tegel Airport

Contrac DES, 2014

Cobus 2500
Cobus 2500 Executive, for VIP transport in the airport area
Cobus 2700 for up to 99 passengers
Cobus 2700s for up to 77 passengers
Cobus 3000 for up to 112 passengers
eCobus
Contrac DES: For the transport of passengers from the mainland to the island of Mont-Saint-Michel , two-way buses of the type DES (Double End Steering) are used as shuttle buses. The vehicle was created in cooperation with Paul Nutzfahrzeuge .

Electrically powered buses

With the Cobus 2500e , the first electric bus was used experimentally on OVB line 103 in 2011 . Cobus Industries also started the e.Cobus project in 2011 together with CaetanoBus and demonstrated prototypes at airports in Europe from 2012. The e.Cobus came onto the market in 2014, and 100% electrically powered vehicles have been running at Stuttgart and Geneva airports since the end of 2015.

Web links

Commons : Contrac buses - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Cobus Industries website
Company portrait ( Memento from December 16, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) ( PDF file; 110 kB)

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d COBUS Industries GmbH annual financial statements for the business year from January 1, 2015 to December 31, 2015, in the electronic Federal Gazette, accessed on January 20, 2017
↑ Hess 1882–2007, 125 Years of Tradition, Innovation, Emotion , 2007, ISBN 3-85962-147-5 , pp. 180–182
↑ Handelszeitung: Swiss Idea Conquers Airports ( Memento of the original from January 20, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , February 18, 2017, accessed on January 20, 2017 (pdf) @1@ 2

↑ Always going forward on Mont-Saint-Michel. Archived from the original on December 16, 2011 ; Retrieved April 15, 2013 .

↑ Bus with double steering. October 2015, accessed October 28, 2015 .

[BA_15-1] COBUS Industries GmbH annual financial statements for the business year from January 1, 2015 to December 31, 2015, in the electronic Federal Gazette, accessed on January 20, 2017

[2] Hess 1882–2007, 125 Years of Tradition, Innovation, Emotion , 2007, ISBN 3-85962-147-5 , pp. 180–182

[3] Handelszeitung: Swiss Idea Conquers Airports ( Memento of the original from January 20, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , February 18, 2017, accessed on January 20, 2017 (pdf) @1@ 2

[4] Always going forward on Mont-Saint-Michel. Archived from the original on December 16, 2011 ; Retrieved April 15, 2013 .

[5] Bus with double steering. October 2015, accessed October 28, 2015 .