bau­ma 2025 – a com­plete success

bau­ma 2025, the world’s largest trade fair for con­struc­tion machin­ery, build­ing mate­r­i­al machines, min­ing machines and con­struc­tion equip­ment, was a com­plete suc­cess. With more than 600,000 vis­i­tors from over 200 coun­tries and 3,601 exhibitors from 57 nations, the event attract­ed experts and com­pa­nies from all over the world.

BU Pow­er Sys­tems was rep­re­sent­ed togeth­er with Perkins on an impres­sive stand and can look back on numer­ous suc­cess­ful dis­cus­sions and valu­able contacts.

Focus on inno­va­tion: effi­cien­cy, flex­i­bil­i­ty and sustainability

At bau­ma 2025, Perkins pre­sent­ed a range of tech­no­log­i­cal inno­va­tions that make machines more effi­cient and flex­i­ble in terms of fuel util­i­sa­tion. These include new and opti­mised com­bus­tion engines, hybrid solu­tions, dri­ve sys­tems with alter­na­tive fuels and elec­tri­fi­ca­tion solu­tions for zero emis­sions. This is com­ple­ment­ed by opti­mised after­mar­ket solutions.

The new Perkins^® 2600 series

One of the most impor­tant inno­va­tions is the intro­duc­tion of the new Perkins^® 2600 Series. The new series offers a pow­er range from 340 to 515 kW, a peak torque of up to 3,200 Nm and unri­valled fuel con­sump­tion. The new Perkins^® 2600 Series thus sets new stan­dards in per­for­mance and effi­cien­cy. It also sup­ports renew­able fuels such as 100% HVO or biodiesel and is ready for the future use of nat­ur­al gas or hydro­gen. Thanks to a mod­u­lar design, instal­la­tion is sim­pli­fied, main­te­nance costs are reduced through longer inter­vals, and telem­at­ics solu­tions enable intel­li­gent net­work­ing. In addi­tion, the new engine design guar­an­tees a low­er noise lev­el. With 82 patents for the entire engine plat­form and a core archi­tec­ture that takes future emis­sions reg­u­la­tions into account, the 2600 series paves the way to a low­er-car­bon future. The new 2600 engine was first pre­sent­ed at CONEXPO 2023, is now in the pilot phase and will go into series pro­duc­tion in 2026.

Com­pact. Pow­er­ful. Reli­able. The update of the 904 series

Anoth­er high­light was the new 106 kW ver­sion of the Perkins 904 series, which offers a 6% increase in pow­er com­pared to the pre­vi­ous mod­el and deliv­ers 3% more torque. This ver­sion is par­tic­u­lar­ly suit­able for appli­ca­tions that require more pow­er in a com­pact design and also ful­fils EU Stage V, U.S. EPA Tier 4 Final and Japan 2014 emis­sion stan­dards and can run on a wide range of fuels, includ­ing 100% HVO.

Con­nec­tiv­i­ty and cus­tomer sup­port: a new era in machine management

In an increas­ing­ly con­nect­ed world, Perkins’ engine experts are also look­ing at dig­i­tal tech­nolo­gies to trans­form cus­tomer ser­vice. In addi­tion to new con­nec­tiv­i­ty con­cepts that Perkins is cur­rent­ly work­ing on, the Perkins Life­cy­cle Con­cept, Perkins Plat­inum Pro­tec­tion and Perkins Hyper­care were also pre­sent­ed. With its new con­nec­tiv­i­ty con­cepts, Perkins plans to enable smarter ser­vice solu­tions for OEMs and machine users in the future, reduc­ing both down­time and oper­at­ing costs. The engine spe­cial­ists are work­ing to pro­vide ear­ly fault detec­tion and seam­less inte­gra­tion into Perkins’ and OEMs’ ser­vice net­works on request.

Perkins’ inno­va­tion projects: From “Pathfind­er” to “Coeus” and “Vol­ta”

Perkins has invest­ed heav­i­ly in research and devel­op­ment in recent years. As part of major inno­va­tion projects, the engine man­u­fac­tur­er is con­tribut­ing to the devel­op­ment of the ener­gy future in the off-high­way machin­ery industry.

Project Coeus: Project Coeus rep­re­sents a sig­nif­i­cant step towards more sus­tain­able propul­sion solu­tions for off-high­way appli­ca­tions and aims to devel­op solu­tions to reduce green­house gas emis­sions. The flag­ship project is fund­ed by the UK gov­ern­ment with £11.14 mil­lion as part of the Advanced Propul­sion Cen­tre (APC). Project Coeus start­ed in Octo­ber 2023 and is sched­uled for com­ple­tion in spring 2027. The project is being devel­oped by Perkins in col­lab­o­ra­tion with Equip­make and Lough­bor­ough Uni­ver­si­ty. Perkins is lead­ing the project and pro­vid­ing its exper­tise in diesel engine devel­op­ment, while Equip­make is pro­vid­ing the e‑drive tech­nol­o­gy for the hybrid sys­tem and Lough­borogh Uni­ver­si­ty is pro­vid­ing sci­en­tif­ic sup­port for the project with advanced engine analy­sis and emis­sions controls.

The aim of the project is to devel­op an advanced, mul­ti­fu­el-capa­ble hybrid propul­sion unit that will serve as a direct replace­ment for con­ven­tion­al diesel solu­tions in off-high­way machines. This sys­tem will enable the tran­si­tion to low­er car­bon or car­bon-free fuels such as hydro­gen, methanol, bioethanol and oth­er e‑fuels, while util­is­ing the ben­e­fits of elec­tri­fi­ca­tion. The propul­sion unit will be designed to run on a vari­ety of fuels, with the first demon­stra­tion using hydro­gen. The inte­gra­tion of hybrid elec­tric com­po­nents and advanced con­trols will ensure effi­cient per­for­mance and responsiveness.

Project Pathfind­er: This project focus­es on the devel­op­ment of inno­v­a­tive fuel tech­nolo­gies and solu­tions that will enable Perkins to ful­fil the require­ments for alter­na­tive fuels and hybrid solu­tions in the future. The focus is on flex­i­bil­i­ty and adapt­abil­i­ty to sup­port OEMs in the tran­si­tion to new, sus­tain­able tech­nolo­gies. As part of the “Pathfind­er” project, a 75 kW diesel tele­han­dler was con­vert­ed into a hybrid vehi­cle that can run on both diesel and elec­tric­i­ty. The tele­han­dler is equipped with a 48 V bat­tery sys­tem that enables elec­tric oper­a­tion. This reduces both fuel con­sump­tion and emissions.

Project Vol­ta: In con­trast to Coeus, the focus of Vol­ta is more on elec­tri­fi­ca­tion and hybrid tech­nolo­gies. This project aims to devel­op a new gen­er­a­tion of hybrid and bat­tery dri­ves that will equip off-high­way machines with low­er CO₂ emis­sions while opti­mis­ing their per­for­mance. As part of the “Vol­ta” research project, Perkins has launched a project focussing on the devel­op­ment of a ful­ly elec­tric wheel loader. This project aims to inves­ti­gate and demon­strate the fea­si­bil­i­ty and ben­e­fits of elec­tri­fi­ca­tion in the con­struc­tion equip­ment indus­try. The Vol­ta 300 is a ful­ly elec­tric wheel loader pow­ered by lithi­um-ion bat­ter­ies. This enables emis­sion-free use and reduces the noise lev­el dur­ing oper­a­tion. Despite the switch to an elec­tric engine, the Vol­ta 300 retains the per­for­mance and effi­cien­cy of a con­ven­tion­al diesel wheel loader. This is achieved by inte­grat­ing advanced dri­ve tech­nolo­gies and bat­tery man­age­ment sys­tems. The use of an elec­tric engine sig­nif­i­cant­ly reduces the wheel load­er’s car­bon foot­print. The Vol­ta project is cur­rent­ly in the devel­op­ment phase and aims to make the vehi­cle avail­able for com­mer­cial use in the near future.

The projects ini­ti­at­ed by Perkins empha­sise Perkins’ com­mit­ment to sup­port­ing the tran­si­tion to more sus­tain­able dri­ve solu­tions by sup­port­ing OEMs with flex­i­ble, future-proof technologies.

Shap­ing the future of sus­tain­able energy

As Perkins con­tin­ues to advance its tech­nolo­gies, the com­pa­ny remains true to its goal of cre­at­ing val­ue not only for the present, but also for the future. The com­pa­ny’s inno­va­tions in pow­er­train solu­tions, cus­tomer ser­vice and con­nec­tiv­i­ty are set­ting new stan­dards for the indus­try. With research ini­tia­tives rang­ing from hydro­gen engines to hybrid solu­tions and con­nect­ed main­te­nance ser­vices, Perkins aims to help OEMs adapt to the chang­ing mar­ket while deliv­er­ing cut­ting-edge, sus­tain­able ener­gy solutions.

With a focus on per­for­mance opti­mi­sa­tion, sus­tain­abil­i­ty and inno­va­tion, Perkins is well equipped to pow­er into the future.