Motor & Bilelektra – helps customers recycle engines

The company was started in 1953 by Kurt and Åke but today the company is run by Kurt's son, Ola. Motor & Bilelektra offers rewinding, repair and service of all kinds of electric motors, electrical machines, power tools, pumps, fans, generators etc.

Their specialties include truck engines, DC and AC motors, and rotor rewinding. We asked Ola Jacobsson, CEO of Motor & Bilelektra, to answer a few questions.

Can you tell us what Motor & Bilelektra does and what your role at the company is?

We rewind and refurbish AC and DC motors, pumps, generators, starters, fans and hand tools. We are more focused on rewinding AC and DC motors than many of our colleagues in the industry. Especially DC motors. We also sell spare parts for motors, and tools for winders and electromechanics.

My role in the company is to make sure that the employees are happy, get the spare parts they need for their jobs and work towards the same goal. It's probably called CEO or owner...

The benefits of being a member of ELR and how membership has benefited the business

The network! Definitely the network. With a membership you get contacts and with that you can often get help when you get stuck or can't find what you're looking for. We are not competitors but colleagues throughout Sweden, who want the same thing: to help the customer with good service and knowledge.

The training is the next big point. Training that is good for us in the industry and at a good price. Our lectures at our spring and autumn meetings are also usually interesting and you can take a lot home to the company afterwards.

Important issues and activities that the industry is pursuing and informing about

As a small company, where you don't have people who work full-time on environmental issues, I think it's important that we have lectures about new rules and regulations. It helps me a lot, at least.

Circular economy/recycling. It's really what our industry has always done, so we're at the forefront of this. We've been helping, and are helping, customers recycle their engines for a long time, but at the same time making sure they save money by calculating and offering the right products.

Continue with the training, because the knowledge is needed as there are no schools that train electromechanics.

The industry's challenges in the coming years

The economy is of course important, although, in theory, worse times should benefit us with customers renovating more rather than buying new. Then it is above all to find new employees who dare and want to work in our profession.

Attracting new talent to our industry is a challenge. How can we attract them?

Difficult question. With different tasks and "exciting" days that are not the same day to day. Training, with the help of ELR's training/courses, but also external training such as forklift licenses, hot work, warehouse course & frequency controls.

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