Exhibitor profile

CBM: specialist in replacement parts for buses and coaches.

For more than 30 years, we have been providing replacement parts for public transport vehicles: buses and coaches. Our technical, commercial and logistical expertise allow us to establish ourselves as the leader on the market of replacement parts for buses and coaches.

The CBM group operates in more than 60 countries throughout the world. The urban networks of the world’s major cities like Paris, New York, Berlin, Madrid, Vancouver, Montréal, Rome Warsaw, Prague, Sydney… as well as numerous private transporters trust us and rely on the savoir-faire of CBM to ensure the maintenance of their transport vehicles.

CBM relies on efficient logistics and has 8 logistics centres around Europe, North America, Australia. These centres allow us to ensure daily deliveries of spare parts in 24 to 72 hours depending on the regions.

Our range is specifically adapted to the maintenance of passenger transport materials and it accompanies their technological development.

Also, CBM offers an evolving range of replacement parts for coaches, buses and trams with more than 85 000 references coming from OE parts manufacturers. Our range is comprised of both mass market parts and technical captive parts.

We meet the vehicle maintenance needs of all brands present in Europe, the Middle East, North America, and Australia, such as Mercedes,Iveco Bus, MAN, Heuliez Bus, Volvo, Scania, Van Hool, Setra, Neoplan, Irizar, VDL, Solaris, Temsa, Otokar, SOR, NovaBus, New Flyer, Prevost, MCI, …

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RETROFLEET was founded in early 2020 by players from the energy world. From the end of 2020, RETROFLEET's activity was recognized: in fact, RETROFLEET was the winner of the ADEME "I-nov" call for projects for the RESET project (Retrofit Ecosystem for the Service of the Environment and Territories).

Since its creation, RETROFLEET has adopted a systemic 
technological approach to electric mobility, taking into 
account the vehicle, its operating methods and its charging 
system in order to seek with its customer a complete, agile 
solution adapted to their needs.

The solutions developed by RETROFLEET cover both : 
- energy management solutions,
- battery design and production,
- a system architecture for mobility.

From 2023, RETROFLEET was the first European company to 
obtain series approval to implement the retrofit of IVECO *
Crossway coaches. Other approvals are in progress, notably *
the MERCEDES Intouro coach. 

The RETROFLEET company, a subsidiary of the CBM group, is an 
automobile manufacturer and technological packager for the 
electric conversion of public and private fleets. The 
technological solutions that it implements with its partners are 
designed and assembled in France.

In 2023, in a dynamic of proximity to its customers and 
limitation of its carbon footprint, RETROFLEET has developed 
partnerships, in particular with the BESSET group (today, a 
subsidiary of the CBM group). This company installs conversion 
kits on vehicles on behalf of RETROFLEET.

At the end of April 2024, the CBM group, the world leader in 
spare parts for the coach and bus sector, became the 
majority shareholder of RETROFLEET. This change in 
shareholding allows RETROFLEET to benefit from CBM group 
locations closer to customers in order to guarantee proximity 
and responsiveness in customer relations on a larger scale. 
Furthermore, it guarantees the support of a recognized 
industrial group.

The solutions developed by RETROFLEET cover both : - energy management solutions, - battery design and production, - a system architecture for mobility.

To support and accelerate the strategy of Mobility Organizing 
Authorities and their public and private operators in terms of 
energy transition and the fight against pollution, the passenger 
transport sector needs concrete, effective and economically 
sustainable solutions.

New electric coaches – battery, battery/hydrogen hybrid – 
present a significant price gap that is difficult to amortize, 
compared to conventional thermal solutions, particularly in the 
coach segment. In this context, the development of innovative 
solutions that are energy efficient, easy to implement and 
financially sustainable is a necessity.

The electric retrofit of vehicles, in other words the conversion of 
thermal vehicles into electric vehicles, represents the most 
economical solution to accelerate the carbon transition at 
lower cost and within a short time frame.