Acquiring company Svia who are experts in robotic servicing of the machines.
– The focus is on global expansion, says Stefan Drakensjö, marketing manager at ABB Robotics.
Robot market grows and among the areas where the strongest growth is expected machine tending. This means that instead of an operator for example, a lathe or a milling allows a robot that.
– Svia have expertise in the area of the acquisition, we want to take the service of machine tools to the next level, says Stefan Drakensjö .
the companies know each other well after several years of cooperation. ABB has used Svias expertise and Svia has been using ABB robots when they sold their application solutions to customers. The companies have also developed a concept for machine tending together.
Now, instead Svia a wholly owned subsidiary and global application centers in the ABB family. From its headquarters in Jönköping, they serve markets in Europe, Asia and America. Sights are especially set to the engineering industry, but also the plastic industry and the electronics industry.
Svia or Swedish Industrial Automation AB they actually called, was founded by the principal owner Ari Kesti, who remain in the company. The business will continue to be led by partner Henrik Saldner who has been president since 2001.
– We ourselves have made a successful international effort, but it was expensive and took a long time. This deal represents an amazing opportunity for both increased global presence, says Henrik Saldner.
Svia has a number of standardized concepts for machine tending robots, technical solutions in a robot cell.
– our expertise is camera technology and in the field, we have staff with PhDs, says Henrik Saldner himself a PhD in optical measurement technology.
Svia had sales of SEK 110 million in 2015 and had approximately 70 employees in Sweden. They also had an office in Houston also included in the deal.
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