
VOITH
VOITH is a company that is part of the pulse of the water sector. Here we bring together everything it publishes on Smart Water Magazine: its news, its blogs and the events it takes part in.

Jan Lüder appointed President and CEO of Voith Hydro
Jan Lüder will be appointed President and CEO of Voith Hydro and member of the Corporate Board of Management of the Voith Group effective April 1, 2025. He succeeds Dr. Tobias Keitel, who will continue his career outside Voith. Jan Lüder was most recently Division President Flow and a member of the Executive Committee of Sulzer […]

Changes in the Voith Hydro Board of Management
Dr. Tobias Keitel succeeds Uwe Wehnhardt as President & CEO of Voith Hydro and member of the Corporate Board of Management of the Voith Group

Voith successfully completes the acquisition of all shares in Voith Hydro
Acquisition of remaining shares in Voith Hydro completed. Buyout is an important step in Voith’s systematic expansion of its core business in sustainable technologies.

Voith Hydro takes next step in becoming Small Hydro system integrator with onboarding of Sintaksa
Voith Group acquired a majority shareholding of the electromechanical equipment provider Sintaksa in 2020. Product portfolios of both companies create a perfect fit with customers benefitting from a single source approach. Cooperation and integration processes are completed and both organizations jointly serve small hydro markets worldwide.

Vietnam’s leading renewable energy company relies on Voith’s Digital HyService
Monthly remote consulting for Vietnamese power plants with digital state-of-the-art technology by Voith. High customer satisfaction in projects Ca Nan 1 and 2 results in ongoing service cooperation. New service model serves as reference for many Southeast Asian countries.

Voith Hydro introduces to the market the new hydraulic governor, HyCon Go Hybrid
The new HyCon GoHybrid hydraulic governor, with significant lower oil content, is launched in the market. First pilot customer in Ulm, Germany, is satisfied. HyCon GoHybrid is part of Voith Hydro’s new HyCon Go governor product family.

Voith Hydro and HYDROGRID successfully complete pilot phase of cooperation
Voith Hydro has taken the next step in delivering the benefits of digitalization to its customers by entering a pilot phase of cooperation with Austrian HYDROGRID. The Vienna-based company was founded in 2016 and offers a fully automated “Software as a Service” (SaaS) solution for optimal real-time operation and dispatch of hydropower plants. The software, […]

Voith equips the Ethiopian hydropower plant Gilgel Gibe II with intelligent solutions
After comprehensive two-year service and maintenance contracts were signed last year between Voith Hydro and the plant owner Ethiopian Electric Power (EEP), the modernization is now further enhanced with the installation of state-of-the-art digital solutions. The service and maintenance contracts, executed at the “G20 Investment Summit,” already include the optimization of the maintenance systems and […]

Voith Hydro modernizes digital turbine governors for the Kinda hydropower plant in Myanmar
Voith Hydro contributes to Myanmar’s local economic and social development. The customer gave high recognition of the digital turbine governor’s premium quality.