Skills - Trades - Tooling - Capacity - Partnerships

Partnerships for Performance

If there are time constraints on manufacture we have the ability to produce limited batch runs in-house, typically up to six vehicles can be produced concurrently. However, for larger batch runs, especially if there is severe time pressure we have forged a number of strategic partnerships which allows us to utilise the industrial capability of partner companies to produce vehicles to our designs, in large numbers, very quickly.

OVIK works with a number of strategic partners, ABBA Commercials being our main partner along with others such as AISH Technologies, NORCO GRP, Mould CAM, Fire Tech, Rockford, David Brown etc etc.

Joint Ventures

The OVIK Joint Venture with ABBA Commercials to produce PANGOLIN in large numbers in a very short space of time is a classic example of strategic partnering. Two companies with complimentary skills and capabilities forming a solid and enduring partnership in order to establish a commercial and industrial edge.

ABBA's main business is the production of large vehicles for the construction industry. They operate two factories with a skilled work force in the order of eighty personnel. They possess the tooling, manpower and systems to take on designs and produce them at rapid pace. The OVIK ABBA partnership works extremely well with OVIK designing concepts and prototyping and ABBA producing the production drawings and running the assembly line. ABBA's own in-house designers add significant input to designs in order to ensure that they can be replicated and produced on ABBAs extensive industrial tooling.

In many cases production is actually split between OVIK and partner companies; for example OVIK often takes on all automotive work, suspension, transmissions and engines etc - leaving high output body production to partners or sub contractors. Often automotive work and bodies can be produced simultaneously - in different locations - with OVIK managing the ultimate integration of all component parts and then carrying out full quality assurance, testing and certification prior to final delivery.

To possess ALL the skills and trades necessary to build a broad range of special vehicles in-house would stand to increase overheads significantly - which ultimately pushes costs and thus prices up. We aim always to avoid a business model which increases costs to our customers and as such we will continue to develop as a design, prototype and test house with limited in-house manufacturing capability but with a network of excellent and trusted partners each of whom bring a range of skills and capabilities to the table.