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ABB will buy the Helvetian Tekomar Group
the company develops produced and services in order to improve the efficiency of the systems of propulsion of naval units
October 24, 2017
The ABB Turbo Systems, society of the Helvetic group ABB that develops and realizes produced and arranges for the electrification and is active in the segments of the robotics and the control of the movement, has signed an agreement in order to buy the Tekomar Group, company founded in 2010 with center to Winterthur, in Switzerland, and with branches in Scandinavia, Germany and South Korea that develops and supplies produced and services in order to improve the efficiency of the systems of propulsion and the auxiliary apparatuses of units employed in the naval field. According to the forecasts, the acquisition will be completed in the course of the last trimester of this year.
"This acquisition - it has evidenced the managing director of ABB Turbocharging, Oliver Riemenschneider - integral perfectly with the current force and abilities to ABB in the naval industry and with our strategic vision time to the development of digital solutions oriented to increase the value. Which total operator of the market, ABB perfectly is placed in order to offer to a total and demanding naval market a olistica digital solution for the ships and their management. The solution of the Tekomar is experienced, very consolidated and represents an extension of value of our current solutions. Our objective - it has concluded Riemenschneider - is that with ABB the customers have ulterior possibilities in order to benefit from the improvement of the performances, the reduction of the fuel consumptions and from the discouragement of the emissions".
"The new acquired solution from the Tekomar - it has added Juha Koskela, managing director of ABB Marine & Ports - remarkablly increases the rhythm with which ABB it strengthens own pocketbook of digital services for the marine field. We - he has found Koskela - are an important part of this digital transformation of the industry that carries to true connectivity of the ships, to the measurement and the monitoring, advanced solutions and sophisticated software in order to obtain given truly useful. This that our customers will obtain from these solutions of next level will be an increase of the productive one, elevating their competitiveness and future profit".
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The ABB Turbo Systems, society of the Helvetic group ABB that develops and realizes produced and arranges for the electrification and is active in the segments of the robotics and the control of the movement, has signed an agreement in order to buy the Tekomar Group, company founded in 2010 with center to Winterthur, in Switzerland, and with branches in Scandinavia, Germany and South Korea that develops and supplies produced and services in order to improve the efficiency of the systems of propulsion and the auxiliary apparatuses of units employed in the naval field. According to the forecasts, the acquisition will be completed in the course of the last trimester of this year.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
