Plettenberg

Plettenberg makes high-performance brushless electric motors for uncrewed systems and specialist vehicles. Its motors are relevant to UAV propulsion stacks where power density and reliability are key integration constraints.

Facts

Segment: Propulsion Components
Country: Germany
Website: https://plettenbergmotors.com/

Market context

Comparable profiles and adjacent companies connected by shared workflow, capability, or stack position.

MGM COMPRO - stack adjacency - capability: UAV Electric Motors
XOAR - stack adjacency - stack: UAV Propulsion Systems
Maglev Aero - stack adjacency - stack: UAV Propulsion Systems

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Timeline

2024-10-30 - Regulatory - Plettenberg receives EN 9100 aerospace quality certification - EN 9100:2018 is equivalent to AS 9100D for aviation, space and defense quality management. The certification supports Plettenberg custom drive solutions for unmanned-system customers with strict qualification requirements. The company highlighted risk… - source: unmannedsystemstechnology.com
2024-01-08 - Product Launch - NOVA Maritime line targets USV and UUV propulsion - The NOVA Maritime Series uses an IP67 closed housing and seawater-corrosion-resistant materials. The motors can be delivered as integrated propulsion units with ESC and capacitor banks inside the housing. Plettenberg positioned the series for USV, UUV and… - source: unmannedsystemstechnology.com
2023-09-14 - Partnership - Dufour selects Plettenberg for Aero2 tail-thruster propulsion - Aero2 is an uncrewed tilt-wing aircraft for critical-cargo transport. Plettenberg supplied a tailored NOVA 15 LW motor with three ESCs and redundancy for continued safe flight. The announcement framed Plettenberg as an electric propulsion supplier for the… - source: dufour.aero

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