Our History - ADELTE GROUP

ADELTE Group is an engineering with more than six decades of experience in the design, manufacture and supply of innovative engineering solutions and advanced operational services

Company knowledge and experience designing and manufacturing products and technologies that support our customers in their daily operations.

1963 TRABOSA was founded by José Bartomeu Guiu and Serafín Ochoa, manufacturing the first semi-trailers.
1968 The first metallic bodies for Motor Ibérica, Avia and Sava and the first TRABOSA trailers.
1974 TRABOSA manufactures first military tank trailer.
1975 TRABOSA is the leading manufacturer of trailers and road transport vehicles in Southern Europe, Africa and Latin America.
1979 TRABOSA manufactures the first four-axle trailer.
1982 First contracts for Airport Passenger Boarding Bridge (PBB) projects (Tenerife and Málaga).
1987 TRABOSA innovates by creating prototypes of the Biomass chipper, self-propelled vehicles and a military off-road vehicle.
1990 TEAM Tecnología Europea Aplicada al Movimiento is founded with the objective to design and manufacture engineered solutions for airports.
1991 TEAM installs 24 Airport PBBs at new Barcelona airport and receives first PBB maintenance contract.
1998 TEAM installs the first two Seaport PBB (SPBBs) at the Buquebus ferry terminal in Barcelona.
2001 TEAM wins first international contracts for the delivery of SPBBs in Morocco and the UK.
2002 TEAM starts with the design and manufacture of Aircraft Recovery Vehicles.
2003 TEAM’s first installation of a SPBB at a Cruise Terminal in the USA (San Juan de Puerto Rico).
2006 Strategic focus on Seaport PBB business and divestment of Airport PBB business.
2009 TEAM develops Baggage Cart Management system and installs at Barcelona airport.
2010 TEAM installs first SPBBs at Port Miami, the cruise capital of the world.
2011 ADELTE is founded and reinvestment in Airport PBB business.
2012 ADELTE starts to design and manufacture innovative PCA units.
2013 TEAM delivers 5 SPBBs, the largest and most complex ever built, to the Kai Tak Cruise Terminal in Hong Kong.
2014 ADELTE wins multiple contracts for Airport PBBs and Ground Support Equipment in the Americas and Asia.
2015 ADELTE installs first PCA with full Inverter technology at the airport of Palma de Mallorca.
2016 ADELTE develops prototype of a PBB Remote Control Operating System for airports. Also, the Seaport PBB business changes the brand TEAM to ADELTE.
2018 ADELTE launches APRONAUT®, the first simulator designed to remotely train new operatos to drive and control Airport PBBs safely.
2020 ADELTE presents during the Covid-19 crisis two products; AD300 and AD400. The products create clean and healthy environments inside PBBs and help to disinfect the surfaces of baggage trays.
2021 ADELTE installs Airport PBBs in Sweden (Gothenburg) and Switzerland (Geneva).
2022 ADELTE implements the ARCOS® system at Seville Airport, making this airport the first in the world to have all PBBs remotely controled and operated.