Alpitronic is burning: what company it is and what it does

Born as a start-up in 2009, Alpitronic of Bolzano has had a great growth trajectory and in 2017 is the world leader in charging columns for electric cars

BOLOGNA – The Alpitronic company of Bolzano, since this morning at 9, it has been affected by a large fire that the firefighters are trying to put out. What burned was the factory where the company is based, in the Piani industrial area (via Mezzo ai Piani) in Bolzano. The situation has generated great concern, also and above all due to the risk of toxic fumes that could spread in the area: citizens have been advised to keep their windows closed. But what does this company do? Since 2017, the company has been the world leader in charging columns for electric cars. It has more than 200 employees.

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THE BIRTH OF THE START UP IN 2009

Alpitronic was founded as a start up in 2009 by four engineers, Andreas Oberrauch, Alessandro Ciceri, Sigrid Zanon and Philipp Senoner. In 2010 he filed the first patent for a resonant switching inverter which brought Alpitronic into contact with the aerospace industry. In the same year the first development project with BMW started.

The company arrived in the headquarters that caught fire today in 2015, when it was already experiencing a moment of strong growth and expansion. Before the current factory (where in the past the warehouses of the Dodiciville agricultural consortium were located), Alpitronic was located at the Noi Techpark in Bolzano.

THE HISTORY OF THE COMPANY

The Alpitronic website reconstructs the history of the company which, it is explained, “was born as a supplier of customized, high-tech power electronic systems in the automotive, aerospace and industrial fields“. This experience, we read further, “pushed us to develop the innovative Hypercharger charging columns and to create a laboratory equipped with advanced measurement technologies to carry out complete tests on semiconductor power systems”. The company is working to “develop operating systems and back-end operational support software for the charging stations“.

THE 2024 YEAR OF “GLOBAL EXPANSION”

As for recent years, the company website shows that in 2023 Alpitronic opened new offices in Munich (Germany), Bergamo and Bologna. This year, the company “began global expansion“, with the opening of new branches in Charlotte, in the United States of America, and in Milton Keynes, in Great Britain.