is yielded by the ThyssenKrupp German for approximately

37 million euros

the Swedish group Saab has completed the acquisition of the compatriot ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems AB (TKMS), navalmeccanica society (former Kockums) that it is yielded for 340 million Swedish crowns (approximately 37 million euros) from the German ThyssenKrupp(of 15 April 2014). TKMS will become a business unit of the division Security and Defence Solutions di Saab and will assume the Saab Kockums denomination.

ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems is mainly specialized in the construction of submarines to propulsion not nuclear. Saab, specifying that the TKMS activities will continue to being centralized in the sites of Malmö, Karlskrona and Muskö, has remembered that last month a letter of attempts with FMV has signed, authority that is under responsibility of the Swedish ministry of the Defense and that it supplies logistic technology and services to the Armed Forces of Sweden, in order to develop the submarine abilities to the Swedish Armed Forces. "The acquisition - it has explained the president and CEO of Saab, Håkan Buskhe - is online with our strategy to expand our offer and to strengthen the position of Saab in the market of the naval systems. Kockums anticipates an only offer and a strong local presence in Sweden in the field of the submarines and the warships. The acquisition returns us a supplier suit of military naval systems. Moreover - it has added - we catch a glimpse good a potential one in order to expand the current market position of the society through opportunity in the market of the export".

TKMS AB has approximately 850 dependent and its produced ones are destined mainly to Marine Militari of Sweden, Australia and Singapore. In the financial year the 2012-13 society has recorded revenues for approximately 1,7 billion Swedish crowns.