Plant Landshut
Aerial view of the BMW plant in Landshut

BMW Group Plant Landshut.

Aerial view of the BMW plant in Landshut

BMW Group Plant Landshut.

Welcome to BMW Group Plant Landshut.

Innovations shape the future. They motivate and inspire us, move people and markets – and deliver tomorrow’s mobility. They come from BMW Group Plant Landshut. We produce key components for the BMW Group’s groundbreaking BMW i models. But that’s not all: thanks to our approx. 3,700 employees, every BMW, MINI and Rolls-Royce incorporates a piece of pure innovation from Landshut. We are proud of our history – but driven by the future.

As the centre of excellence for lightweight engineering and electric mobility, we set the trends for our entire industry. We do it by leveraging the very special talents that make us who we are: our creativity, innovativeness and strong pioneering spirit. We always like to be one idea ahead of the competition. So, when a technology goes into series production, we carry on enhancing it – while also researching the innovations of tomorrow. We want our customers to be satisfied with what we do. Better yet: to love it! Because that means they love what we love: Sheer Driving Pleasure. 

Facts and Figures.

Employees
~ 3.700
employees
Production
5 MIO.
components a year
Investments
~ 70 MIO. €
invested by BMW in BMW Group Plant Landshut

Technologies at Plant Landshut.

A BMW Group employee works on an engine with modern tools.

Tradition at heart.

In our special engine production unit, innovation meets tradition in a unique way. Here, we make special and replacement engines for the powertrains in every current BMW Group vehicle, right through to the V12 for Rolls-Royce. From 1970s to series engines, our experienced team produce some 18,000 replacements and 1,800 series engines a year, in about 700 variants, for workshops and collectors all over the world. We also recondition engines which we obtain from customers in part-exchange and fit with new components.

The perfect drive.

A driveshaft transfers power from the engine and transmission to the drive wheels via the axle shaft. So when it comes to delivering the driving dynamics and suspension qualities that set BMW Group vehicles apart, a high strength, smooth-running driveshaft with optimal vibration control is essential.

We are the only plant in the BMW Group’s global production network to produce driveshafts and make about 1.4 million of them a year – in 220 series variants. They are incorporated into BMW Group cars and motorcycles by BMW Motorrad. Our driveshaft production specialists work closely with colleagues from drivetrain and chassis development to incorporate new materials, constructive solutions, lightweight engineering and joining technologies into forthcoming vehicle concepts.

A BMW Group employee checks drive shafts before they are installed.
Two employees working on the interior of a vehicle.

Inner values.

The inside of a BMW is all about comfort, function and individuality – which our cockpit production specialists deliver by leveraging their manufacturing expertise and technological innovations. Several thousand interior components leave our plant every day – 1,260 upper sections for instrument panels and 2,780 gloveboxes among them. We also make 286,000 cockpits in total a year.

In addition, our model and prototype construction department produces mock-ups of concepts for the interiors of future BMW models.

Where innovations take shape.

Our light metal foundry is the largest production unit at BMW Group Plant Landshut and the company’s only European facility for light metal casting. In 2024 the foundry team produced 3.6 million cast components with a combined weight of almost 78,000 tonnes. Our products include engine components such as cylinder heads and crank cases, electric drive components and large-scale structural parts for vehicle bodies.

The light metal foundry is one of the most cutting-edge in the world, with innovative and sustainable production processes that have won us a number of awards. Many of our cast parts are shaped using sand cores made with inorganic binders – a sustainable method with hardly any emissions and a world first. Five different techniques are used in standard cast component production, depending on the concept, specifications and production volumes of the component concerned.

An employee working on a component with a modern robot in the light metal foundry.
An employee in production who manufactures carbon parts for the vehicles.

High-tech material.

Carbon is unlike almost any other conventional material. A composite material, it offers a unique combination of numerous positive characteristics: it’s light, extremely robust and corrosion-resistant.

Plant Landshut has been the BMW Group’s centre of excellence for carbon production ever since 1999, when the Landshut Innovation and Technology Centre opened. With more than 25 years of intensive process and material development experience – including production of carbon roofs for BMW M models – our specialists have acquired unique expertise in large-scale carbon-specific production processes and produce body components for the BMW 7 Series and BMW i.

 

External values matter too.

Plastic opens up a wide range of possibilities, because it gives our designers substantially more creative freedom than conventional materials such as steel or aluminium. It is about 50 percent lighter than steel, resistant to minor damage and does not corrode. 

Through decades of experience, our plastics specialists at BMW Group Plant Landshut have acquired unique expertise in manufacturing and painting large-scale plastic components: in 2024, they produced around 266,000 painted plastic exterior components in 40 standard and 200 individual colours.

A plastics specialist who works meticulously on the details of a vehicle.
A scientist in a lab coat poses next to a robot and smiles at the camera.

Brain of the high-voltage battery.

All the elements that enable this technological leap forward come together in the BMW Energy Master. This central control unit is positioned on the high-voltage battery and forms the interface for the high- and low-voltage power supply and for data from the battery. It also controls the power supply for the electric motor and on-board network and ensures the safe and intelligent operation of the high-voltage battery. The BMW Group has filed a whole series of new patent applications for the vehicle electrical system, including its electronic fuses. The Energy Master’s hard- and software were developed entirely in-house at the BMW Group.

From Landshut out into the world: for the foreseeable future, BMW Group Plant Landshut will remain the only production site for Energy Masters worldwide. We currently manufacture this complex control unit in pre-series production using a state-of-the-art facility. The first series production line will launch in August 2025, and be expanded in mid-2026.

Latest News from BMW Group Plant Landshut.

BMW Group Plant Landshut focuses on digitalization in component production.

BMW Group reveals revolutionary electric drive concept with 800V technology for the Neue Klasse.

German component manufacturing facility continues its transformation to electric mobility.

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Our responsibility.

Corporate responsibility is about more than just business success: we invest in innovative processes and production technologies for a sustainable and successful future too. For more on sustainability, our employees, and our environmental and social responsibility, visit the BMW Group website.

Sign of the BMW Group plant in Landshut with a green meadow and many colorful flowers in the foreground.

Environmental Statement.

Sustainable quality that’s all about people.

History of Plant Landshut.

Workers of the sixties at the Landshut plant

1969 The Landshuter Zeitung runs an article announcing BMW’s plans to manufacture in Landshut. An absolute success story is about to begin.

Workers of the sixties at the Landshut plant

1969 The Landshuter Zeitung runs an article announcing BMW’s plans to manufacture in Landshut. An absolute success story is about to begin.

Contact and Directions.

BMW Group Plant Landshut
Meisenstraße 29
84030 Ergolding

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Address.

BMW Group Werk Landshut
Ohmstraße 2
84030 Landshut

Gates.

Gate 1: Neidenburgerstraße, 84030 Landshut
Gate 2: Meisenstraße, 84030 Ergolding

Contact.

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Customer care.

If you have any questions about our products, your own BMW or the specifications of our models, please contact customer care.

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