Westport acquires BAF Technologies to expand its NGV offering in the U.S.

“We welcome the BAF and ServoTech teams to Westport,” said Ian Scott, Executive Vice President of Westport. “BAF has established a strong portfolio of NGV products and customers over the past decade. With natural gas increasingly seen as a major transportation fuel around the world, we believe the combination of this new teams’ market experience and Westport’s technologies, scalable manufacturing processes and quality control systems will help offer the type of products needed to deliver an OEM-quality vehicle experience to our customers.”

Currently, Westport exclusively installs the natural gas Westport WiNG™ Power System on the Ford F-250 through F-550 series at its assembly center in Louisville, KY. This acquisition increases Westport’s product range with the Ford line to include transit, cargo shuttle and taxi vehicles and dedicated natural gas vehicles for markets such as California. BAF has been producing a broad list of NGV conversions for more than a decade. Westport will continue to install its WiNG™ system and the increased volume of orders expected through BAF will build economies of scale, and the BAF network will allow more flexibility in producing special configurations.

Moreover, Westport has committed $5 million to a new co-marketing program aimed at increasing the natural gas vehicle market, and will allow Westport to provide purchase incentives for fleets, including fuel credits, and includes a commitment from Clean Energy to purchase Westport products.

Source: Westport Innovations