OPmobility SE (formerly Plastic Omnium) has partnered with Danish startup AIRY Automotive to develop a new generation of lightweight battery casing using continuous composite material 3D printing technology. Their collaboration was honored with the Plug and Play Global Innovation Award 2025 in the “Manufacturing” cat

EKPO Fuel Cell Technologies GmbH (EKPO), a joint venture of ElringKlinger and OPmobility, presented its fuel cell stacks and bipolar plates for sustainable mobility at Auto Shanghai 2025.
It displayed its portfolio of four modular stack platforms: the NM5-evo, NM12-single, NM12-twin, and NM20, ranging from 16 kW to 4

Siemens Digital Industries announced that OPmobility SE (formerly Plastic Omnium) has adopted Teamcenter X, the cloud-enabled Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software from Siemens’ Xcelerator portfolio, to improve its product development process across its 40 R&D centers worldwide.
By using Teamcenter X as its sin

OPmobility SE (formerly Plastic Omnium) established a new Exterior & Lighting business group on February 1, 2025.
The new business group combines the exterior systems and lighting activities to meet the growing demands of manufacturers for value-added integrated exterior systems, while creating synergies with lightin

OPmobility SE (formerly Plastic Omnium) is presenting its hydrogen and battery electrification solutions for mobility, including cars, trucks, buses, and commercial vehicles (CVs), at H2 & FC EXPO in Tokyo, Japan, from February 19 to 21, 2025.
For the first time in Japan, OPmobility is exhibiting 4 solutions. (i) The

OPmobility SE is presenting its hydrogen solutions at the Hyvolution 2025 in Porte de Versailles, Paris, from January 28-30.
The company is showcasing its hydrogen storage system for light commercial vehicles, the first to enter series production at its plant in Lachelle (France). This system consists of 3 or 4 high-

OPmobility SE (formerly Plastic Omnium) announced that it is presenting innovations products for exterior, lighting, and modules at CES 2025.
The company is displaying its exterior body systems integrating fiber optic panels and screens featuring hundreds of micro-LEDs. Highlights include (i) the world premiere of it

OP’nSoft, a software entity of OPmobility SE, has collaborated with WedoLow to enhance the performance and sustainability of embedded software for OPmobility’s automotive and mobility customers. The partnership aims to optimize software power-consumption, memory space used, and software execution time.
WedoLow specia

OPmobility SE (formerly Plastic Omnium) will present One4you, its new global offer for exterior vehicle systems at CES 2025. This new “all-in-one” solution combines OPmobility’s expertise in exterior body systems, lighting, modules, and OP’nSoft, its entity which develops software for its products and services. It wi

OPmobility SE (formerly Compagnie Plastic Omnium SE) presented its hydrogen and battery solutions for trucks, buses, and light commercial vehicles (CVs), together with its joint venture EKPO Fuel Cell Technologies, at IAA Transportation 2024.
Its hydrogen technologies include the SCR system (selective catalytic reduc

EKPO Fuel Cell Technologies GmbH (EKPO), a joint venture of ElringKlinger and OPmobility, announced its most powerful fuel cell stack module NM20 which will be presented at IAA Transportation 2024. Currently in the prototyping phase, the NM20 is expected to begin customer deliveries toward the end of 2024.
Designed f

OPmobility (formerly Plastic Omnium) announced that during the first half of 2024, it has won business for bumpers for Stellantis Berlingo, Doblo, Combo, and Partner models. It will also supply front and rear bumpers for the Honda Prologue.
For the lighting division, it will supply headlamps and bodyshells for Peugeo

OPmobility (formerly Plastic Omnium) officials announced that the company will undergo a USD 3 million expansion at its Spring Hill, Tennessee plant.
OPmobility will expand its product offerings for customers and further support EV production lines. The expansion will create 186 new jobs..
Headquartered in France, OP

On June 20, OPmobility SE (formerly Compagnie Plastic Omnium SE)  announced that it is participating in the Renault Trucks consortium's groundbreaking initiative on hydrogen-powered internal combustion engines called ICEH2.
This project, supported by the French government's visionary stimulus plan, aims to reshape th

OPmobility SE (formerly Compagnie Plastic Omnium SE) and Sonatus announced a jointly project to develop a software display solution for enhancing road safety.
The solution aims to reduce car collisions and protect Vulnerable Road Users (VRUs). The demo was presented at the STARTUP AUTOBAHN EXPO 2024 in Stuttgart, Ger

OPmobility (formerly Compagnie Plastic Omnium SE) announced that it will present its line-up of hydrogen and battery electrification solutions for trucks, buses, and commercial vehicles (CVs) at the Advanced Clean Transportation (ACT) Expo in Las Vegas from May 20-23, 2024.
The company will display the 150kW FCM (Fue

EKPO Fuel Cell (Suzhou) Co., Ltd. (EKPO Suzhou), EKPO (a joint venture between ElringKlinger and Plastic Omnium)’s Chinese headquarters (HQ) and new manufacturing site, was opened in Suzhou New District (SND). The company simultaneously launched a phase-II project dedicated to providing market-leading hydrogen fuel c

OPmobility (formerly Compagnie Plastic Omnium SE) presented its Smart Tailgate 2024, which has won the German Innovation Award.
In a single unit, the Smart Tailgate features (i) advanced exterior body design using up to 50% recycled materials and debondable glue technology for easier disassembly; (ii) rear lighting,

The Ministry of Industry and Tourism, Spain announced the 15 new approved projects of line B of PERTE VEC II, with a budget of around EUR 75.7 million.
Gestamp has received financing of EUR 34.1 million for 6 projects, which will be allocated to the development of innovative solutions on the assembly line in the diff

OPmobility (formerly Compagnie Plastic Omnium SE) announced that it has changed the name of some of its business groups.
Intelligent Exterior Systems business group is now called Exterior, focusing on exterior systems activity. Clean Energy Systems business group becomes C-Power (for energy and emission reduction sys