{"id":40333,"date":"2026-04-15T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fdgmtool.com\/case-study-stadt-ulm-cuts-grounds-maintenance-cost-38-with-fdgm-private-label-cordless-fleet-zh\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T01:00:00","slug":"case-study-stadt-ulm-cuts-grounds-maintenance-cost-38-with-fdgm-private-label-cordless-fleet-zh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fykiktatools.com\/zh-hans\/case-study-stadt-ulm-cuts-grounds-maintenance-cost-38-with-fdgm-private-label-cordless-fleet-zh\/","title":{"rendered":"Case Study: Stadt Ulm Cuts Grounds-Maintenance Cost 38% with FDGM Private-Label Cordless Fleet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">When Stadt Ulm tendered out its 2025 grounds-maintenance fleet renewal, the brief was unusually specific: cut petrol equipment by 80%, cap noise emissions at 76 dB(A), and accept zero compromise on uptime across 1,400 hectares of public green space.<\/p>\n<h2>The brief<\/h2>\n<p>The municipal grounds team operates 38 daily routes covering parks, sports turf, school grounds and roadside vegetation. Previous fleet ran 45 petrol mowers, 32 trimmers and 18 blowers. Annual fuel + service spend: \u20ac184k. Citizen complaints about morning noise: 220+ per year.<\/p>\n<h2>Our supply<\/h2>\n<p>FDGM private-labelled the city&#8217;s existing brand (KommunalGr\u00fcn) onto our 18V P4A platform \u2014 32 cordless mowers, 28 trimmers, 12 blowers, 6 pole pruners. Single-battery interoperability across the fleet. Custom carton pack with department QR codes. 4-year service contract.<\/p>\n<h2>The numbers, one year in<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Maintenance cost: \u221238%<\/strong> (\u20ac114k vs \u20ac184k)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Noise complaints: \u221281%<\/strong> (42 vs 220)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Operator-reported fatigue: \u221226%<\/strong> (vibration handles)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Petrol consumption: \u221289%<\/strong> (kept 5 high-cut mowers for heavy turf)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Battery downtime: 0 incidents<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>What the public-sector buyer needed from us<\/h2>\n<p>The win was not just the tool spec \u2014 it was the tender-pack documentation. ISO 9001\/14001\/45001, REACH compliance statements, EcoVadis Gold rating, full vibration test reports, end-of-life take-back commitment. Our OEM tender desk packages this for every public-sector bid.<\/p>\n<h2>Replicating this for your municipality or facility<\/h2>\n<p>If you maintain &gt; 200 hectares or run a fleet of &gt; 25 powered tools, the same private-label model applies. <a href=\"\/contact\/\">Request a tender-pack consultation<\/a> \u2014 typical turnaround is 5 working days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stadt Ulm switched 38 grounds-maintenance routes to a single-battery cordless fleet built and labelled by FDGM. One year in: \u221238% cost, \u221281% noise complaints, zero battery downtime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_joinchat":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-case-studies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fykiktatools.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fykiktatools.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fykiktatools.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fykiktatools.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fykiktatools.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fykiktatools.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fykiktatools.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fykiktatools.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fykiktatools.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fykiktatools.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}