Kaftfahrzeug

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Kaftfahrzeug GmbH is a large corporation of the Distant Fringe.

Description (Portfolio)

Kaftfahrzeug is considered to be a part of the Consumer goods, Manufacturing, Heavy Industry, and Aerospace Business Sector. It primarily operates within the coreward parts of Halcyon Sector. It produces military hardware and is a major supplier of armored vehicles.

Commercial Competencies

  • CAD, practical design, architectural plans and tooling.
  • Primary logistics.
  • Smelting, casting and alloying materials.
  • Cutting, shaping, and joining materials.
  • Precision construction and manufacturing.
  • Gravitic and electronic subsystems.
  • Power, transmission and suspension subsystems.
  • Finishing, retrofitting, conversions and modifications.
  • Storage of finished products.

Governance & Organization

Kaftfahrzeug is governed by a Chairman, a Committee of Trustees and an Executive Board. It is run by a Chief Executive Officer, Chief Operating Officers and Department Directors. It has a large Records Department, a Legal Department, an Internal Logistics Office, a Sophont Resources Department, a Public Relations Office, a Finance and Resources Department, and a Bureau of Internal Security.

Head Office:

The head office is located on Scybria, a historic world and an important trading center in the coreward part of Halcyon Sector. As well as the main administrative complexes its headquarters includes a corporate retreat and spa complex, a number of executive villas, and large private estates with associated recreational facilities where business may be undertaken in complete privacy. The company controls a private spaceport facility on the world.

Major Divisions:

  • Research and Development
  • Surface Tech Group (disparagingly referred to as the Low Tech Group)
  • Aviation and Gravitics Division
  • Heavy Equipment Division
  • Light Military Vehicle Division
  • Civil Vehicle Division
  • Commercial Vehicle Division

Stockholders

Stock ownership:

Subsidiaries

  • Neue Technologiepartnerschaft AG (a company specialising in the precision production of hull materials)
  • UltraPrime Inc (a company specialising in the manufacture of advanced power generation equipment).

Notable Investments

Corporate Holdings

The company maintains Regional Head Offices, administrative centers, construction facilities, fabrication and assembly plants, factories and industrial complexes, commercial premises and private territory on worlds across the region. It holds substantial amounts of machinery, tools, vehicles, supplies, and the supporting equipment and technology necessary to maintain operations. Its various assets and holdings are protected by corporate security.

  • The company has substantial reserves of strategically important materials.
  • The company has a fleet of small personnel transport vessels.

History & Background (Dossier)

The corporation can trace its origins to the Civil Wars period.

Trade Partners

  • Holt Industries. Providing state of the art weapons and defensive systems for military vehicles and platforms.

Trade Competitors

No information yet available.

Notes

Kaftfahrzeug was the primary producer of armored vehicles for the Scybrian Polyarchy during the Scybrian Wars. It was responsible for the iconic Kfz-100 series of grav sleds, utilised by Scybrian troops throughout the conflict.

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