Elematic

Infobox Company
name = Elematic Oy Ab

foundation = 1959
type = Limited company
location_city = Toijala
location_country = Finland
key_people = Leo Sanqvist(CEO)
industry = Metal industry
products = Machines and technology for precast concrete industry
revenue = increase108,000,000 € (2007)
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num_employees = 205(2007)
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slogan = "Elematic makes your dream concrete!"
homepage = [http://www.elematic.com/ elematic.com]
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Elematic Ltd is a Finnish company founded in 1959, which supplies precast concrete machinery and equipment worldwide.

History

1960's

It all started in 1959 when Toijalan Teräsvalmiste (TTV) began building machinery for the precast concrete industry. International sales were one of TTV"s active pursuits from the very beginning. By 1969, this led to the founding of a German sister company Finn Elematic Baugeräte GmbH in Nidda, outside of Frankfurt.

1970´s

The first ELEMATIC extruder was built in the early 70´s and sold to Partek - a Finnish cement and building materials manufacturer. Soon thereafter - in 1973 - Partek decided to acquire TTV, forming Partek Heavy Metal Industry with 400 employees. Finn-Elematic GmbH continued to be the outpost for marketing of ELEMATIC products in Germany and in other German-speaking countries.

1980´s

In 1981, in order to achieve more flexibility, manufacturing and engineering were separated into own business units: Toijala Workshop for building machines and Elematic Engineering (EE) for engineering, marketing and selling. The separation became more formal as two limited liability companies Elematic Engineering Oy (1988) and Toijala Works Oy (1990) were formed. In 1984 Dy-Core Systems Inc (DC), a Canadian hollow-core machine manufacturer, was acquired by Elematic Engineering Oy.

1990´s

In 1992, during a period of transition in Finnish building material industry, the two industry leaders Partek and Lohja Parma Engineering (which had a subsidiary Induco GmbH, in Germany) decided to restructure their building material businesses. As a part of the process they choose to cooperate in precast, uniting both their precast manufacturing plants and technology units to form Partek Concrete Engineering.In 1996 Partek Concrete Engineering acquired the business operations of Germany"s Roth Machinenbau GmbH and combined it with existing operations in Nidda to form PCE Roth GmbH. The Roth name is especially well known for slipformers. The name of the parent company was officially changed to PCE Engineering Oy Ab (PCE).

More acquisitions were made during this period of strong growth:1997 Finnish Mecakone Oy became part of PCE.1998 saw the establishment of a US subsidiary, PCE Elematic, Inc.1999 Finnish Rimera Oy, the manufacturer of molds and beds, was added to PCE.

2000's

In 2000 a separate Customer Service Center was created to meet the after-sale support needs of a growing number of clients. The technology to create light weight, non-load-bearing partition walls - the only missing part of the one stop portfolio - became part of PCE after acquisition of ACOTEC Ltd´s business operations in November 2001. In 2003, to unify all operations as the one-stop-supplier, PCE takes back the old company name "Elematic", now as Elematic Oy Ab. In 2006, Elematic was acquired by several Finnish investors. Later that year Elematic Group acquired X-Tec Oy, a Finnish hollow-core slab machinery manufacturer.

In 2007 Finnish investor group, led by private equity investor Sentica Partners sells Elematic Group to a private equity fund managed by Pamplona Capital Management. The management of Elematic maintains their shareholding of the company.

Company

Elematic is a one-stop-supplier of precast concrete machinery and equipment from a single accessory or machine to an entire product line or a complete plant. Services include training of customer personnel, installation supervision, and extensive support services. Elematic operates worldwide providing products and services for precasters in more than 80 countries on 5 continents. Elematic also maintains Precast Dictionary [http://www.precastfountain.com/easydata/customers/fountain/files/General_info/Precast_Dictionary.xls] , which is a glossary of precast concrete technology, and organises Precast Academy [http://www.elematic.com/en/coming_events/precast_academy] training events, which are open for all.

As a global company Elematic's has subsidiaries Elematic Inc. in the U.S. and Elematic GmbH in Germany, as well as the Elematic sales office and customer service center in Dubai, sales offices in France and Russia, and a wide coverage of agents and distributors.

The main marketing areas of Elematic consist of the Middle East, the CIS, the Baltic Countries, and Western Europe. To the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, and Bahrain alone, Elematic has delivered twenty complete factories. Elematic’s share of the world’s extruder-based hollow core production technology amounts to 80%, and its share of the entire modern precast production technology is approximately 50%.

Products

Elematic has five main product ranges: Flooring technologies, Batching & mixing plants with concrete distribution systems, Acotec partition wall technology, Various technologies for e.g. general precast concrete walls, facades, beams, columns, railway sleepers and others.

The main technologies and machines Elematic delivers are e.g.:
* Extruders (for the production of hollow-core slabs)
* Slipformers
* Production lines for Acotec-walls
* Circulating lines
* Battery molds
* Table molds
* Batching & mixing plants
* Concrete distribution systems

In addition the range covers several supporting appliances, e.g. plotters, saws, FaMe fastening systems and controlling system such as SlabMaster, Bedmaster and ELiPLAN erp and other software.

ources

* http://www.elematic.com
* http://www.precastfountain.com

More

* [http://www.elematic.com Company's web pagesen]