AVL and GIF conclude cooperation agreement

The worldwide operating company AVL, headquartered in Graz, Austria, and the renowned transmission specialist GIF, headquartered in Alsdorf, Germany, have signed a cooperation agreement. It covers the areas of powertrain and transmission development for passenger cars and light trucks as well as test bed technology. The aim of the cooperation is to join AVL’s powertrain competence which is internationally recognized in the global automotive industry with the transmission know-how of GIF. Helmut List, CEO of AVL: “Both companies benefit from this strategic concentration of know-how because of the ever growing demands and the intensive competition in the world market.”

The agreement provides for the world-wide marketing of all development services within the scope of this cooperation. GIF’s knowledge with regard to transmission mechanical and functional development combined with AVL’s software and application engineering will be available to the worldwide sales and engineering network of AVL. Both partners believe that it will be increasingly necessary to focus development activities on the engine-transmission combination in the future, especially where drives with electric components are concerned. Ulrich Rohs, Managing Director of GIF: “This powerful cooperation of two mutually complementing partners covers the whole range of powertrain development.”

AVL is the world’s largest privately-owned and independent company for the development of powertrain system with internal combustion engines and alternative drive systems, instrumentation and test systems as well as mathematical simulation software.

GIF is a transmission developer and leading engineering service provider in the fields of transmission design, functional and mechanical development as well as powertrain testing. 

Prof.Dr.h.c. Helmut List, Chairman and CEO   Dr.-Ing. Ulrich Rohs, Managing Director GIF