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Focus on Europe’s fastest-growing ambulance builder
The Happy Haus of BAUS
– Crafting Bespoke Ambulances
to Meet Growing Global EMS Demand
Last year Baus AT designed and built over 800 new EMS vehicles for customers across the world. They
included Medical Services Units, HDUs and Neo-Natal Ambulances. A family-run ambulance-build
company, Baus AT have been manufacturing from their Toruń-based plant in Northern Poland since 2007.
But now, due to the constantly-rising demand created by their outstanding build-quality and superb
after-sales support service, father, Franz, son, Uwe, and their dedicated team of 200+ workers, face the
logistically demanding challenge of moving their well-organised ambulance build operation to a custombuilt
new 17,000 metre square plant over twice the size of their existing facility, also in Toruń.
Ambulance Today editor, Declan Heneghan, recently went out to the beautiful 12th century medieval city
of Toruń, birthplace of mathematician and astronomer Copernicus, to see first-hand how Baus build their
world-beating range of EMS vehicles.
Photography by Isaac Heneghan
Franz Baus
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Founder and the driving force behind
Baus AT, German entrepreneur, Franz, is
not complaining about the move one bit.
Supported by Operations Director, Uwe, and
their happy Polish workforce, 2016 is shaping
up to be the year in which his three decades
of hard work and total dedication to the
craft of ambulance building is beginning to
reap substantial rewards in terms of both
global reputation and orders.
Uwe at work
When you drive into the Baus AT plant two
long rows of plain-looking work units are
separated by a wide tarmacked area along
which rows of ambulances are parked. The
decals on the sides of the vehicles tell you
they are intended for customers from as
far afield as Germany, the Netherlands, the
UK, France, Hong Kong and all parts of the
Middle East. But apart from a modest sign on
the small main entrance, there’s no clue as to
what exactly goes on inside any of the units.
There is no reserved parking for the senior
managers and cars of all makes and ages are
scattered up and down. The only evidence
of activity is the occasional movement of
ambulances being moved from ‘A’ to ‘B’ and
men in overalls walking hurriedly between
each block, usually holding a clip-board or a
tool of some sort.
With Baus UK Managing Director, David
Brophy as my initial tour guide the first stop
of the day was to call in on founder and
overall boss, Franz Baus, in his surprisingly
modest and unfussy office. Franz was
completing a phone call to Hong Kong.
Aware that Baus has made a great effort to
build business in the Asia-Pacific, Middle and
Far East regions in recent years I inquired
how things are going?
“Hong Kong has been a terrific market for us
in recent years. We currently have an order
for about 80 units from the government
Fire Brigade and we have delivered in the
last 8 years more than 600 units to the
Fire Brigade, also to different Power Plants,
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