Founder Andreas Haller takes over Quantron following insolvency

Quantron emerged as a new player in the commercial electric vehicle market at the end of 2019 – launched by Gersthofen-based Iveco contract partner and commercial vehicle specialist Haller. Andreas Haller is now also keeping the company alive: On 1 April, the remaining Quantron assets and the workforce, which had shrunk to 35 employees, were taken over by Andreas Haller Holding GmbH – as part of a transferring reorganisation. Quantron AG is now history and the company is being absorbed into a new company, which once again belongs to the Haller Group. The former founder buys Quantron anew, so to speak.

In its startup phase, Quantron positioned itself in the conversion industry but quickly transformed itself into a system integrator with international ambitions. The management repeated more and more frequently that Quantron did not want to become an OEM, but a platform provider in the field of electric commercial vehicles. The business model therefore always focussed less on the production and sale of electric trucks and more on the operation of an ecosystem. However, there were increasing problems with the financing of this business model, and the situation came to a head last year. Quantron then had to file for insolvency at the end of October 2024 after a financing round collapsed. The subsequent provisional insolvency proceedings led to regular proceedings under insolvency administrator Constantin Graf Salm-Hoogstraeten at the turn of the year. As a result, only a core team of over 100 employees remained in October.

According to Graf Salm-Hoogstraeten, the creditors’ committee approved the buy-out by Haller-Holding in advance. An insolvency plan solution originally sought by Andreas Haller, which would have enabled the legal entity ‘Quantron AG’ to be retained, proved not to be realisable in the near future, according to the insolvency administrator. However, the Quantron brand will remain.

According to Haller, the company succeeded in acquiring new international orders in preparation for the buyout, but these could not have been finalised during the ongoing insolvency proceedings. According to the insolvency administrator, this is one of the reasons why an asset deal has now been implemented as a quick solution as of 1 April 2025.

Incidentally, Quantron itself sent out a press release via email on its comeback yesterday entitled ‘QUANTRON Relaunches after Insolvency – Sustainable, Strengthened, and Future-Oriented’. The company does not say a word about the background of the acquisition. However, the new and old managers of the brand do promise to “provide further updates in the coming weeks.” To this end, a press conference is to be held in the second quarter of 2025 to discuss details of the future strategy and new projects.

Source: Info via email,  bbl-law.com (in German)