ADELTE Group

Barcelona, 2 February 2023 –ADELTE Airport Technologies has received a grant for the project “Development of an autonomous driving system for passenger boarding bridges and IoT platform”, with File No. 2021/C005/00153298 by Red.es.

The R&D project has as general objective the development of Artificial Vision technologies or Deep Learning and IoT systems for data collection and processing, allowing the development of intelligent PBBs, capable of automatically docking aircraft, as well as a Monitoring Platform capable of improving all PBB operations.

The project is scheduled for completion in early 2024, and has been funded by the European Union – Next Generation EU, through the Public Business Entity Red.es with the Recovery and Resilience Mechanism Fund within the European Recovery Instrument.

Barcelona, 7 July 2022 – ADELTE GROUP announced that a group of eight Spanish private industrial investors formalized the purchase from venture-capital fund Baring Equity Group of 50,5%  of shares of ADELTE Group, thereby finalizing the 11 years involvement of Baring in the world leading provider of Passenger Boarding Bridges.

In 2011, ADELTE Group signed an agreement with Baring Private Equity Partners to increase ADELTE’s capital and to support its growth in the Seaport Passenger Boarding Bridge business, as well as re-launch the activity of Airport Passenger Boarding Bridges, while at the same time increasing the activity of Services business. This agreement allowed the development of airport and port activities throughout the world, expanding its presence in more than 37 countries and exporting 80% of its business through advanced engineering solutions.

Today ADELTE Group is composed of the following shareholders: The new eight private industrial investors (50%), the founding families (45%) and members of the Management Team (5%)

Josep Maria Bartomeu, president of ADELTE Group commented: “We are very grateful for the contribution and support made by Baring Private Equity during all these years; they have been a great partner by allowing us to continuously improve our management systems. This change in the shareholding entails a strong commitment to ADELTE and reinforces the company’s financial structure to undertake an ambitious and exciting business plan in the coming years. The executive team that has been doing a great job during these times of the pandemic will continue to be responsible for management of the Group. Although our current turnover continues to be affected by the pandemic, the plan is to reach pre-pandemic figures in the next three years.”.

ADELTE Group and all its companies are committed to environmental sustainability, not only from the perspective of responsibility or as a mechanism to manage certain types of risks and waste more efficiently, but also as a sustainable business model.

Our priority in environmental matters is to minimize the negative impacts of our activities on the environment, focusing our actions on preventing spills, optimizing resource consumption, and minimizing, segregating and properly managing waste.

As established by our ISO 14001 environmental management certificate, ADELTE is committed to the sustainable development of the society, reporting each year quantifiable results such as the consumption of natural materials, waste or CO2 emissions.

During 2018 the electricity consumption was 1637 kWh per worker and in 2019 it was 1284.23 kWh. Therefore, we are pleased to communicate that we have achieved the goal of reducing during 2019 the electricity consumption of each worker by 21.56% compared to the previous year, which means avoiding the emission of 123.6 kg CO2 into the atmosphere.

Congratulations to all for your effort and awareness in respecting the environment!