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This news article was originally written in Spanish. It has been automatically translated for your convenience. Reasonable efforts have been made to provide an accurate translation, however, no automated translation is perfect nor is it intended to replace a human translator. The original article in Spanish can be viewed at Atlas Copco entra en el mercado de equipos de perforación para piedra ornamental

Atlas Copco goes in in the market of equipment of perforación for ornamental stone

14/03/2012

14 March 2012

Atlas Copco Italy S.p.To. It has purchased Drill S.p.To., an Italian company that manufactures and commercialises equipment of perforación and cutting for the industry of the ornamental stone (quarries that produce blocks of stone).

The market of Drills is operating in the industry of the ornamental stone (DSI), and has been growing in spite of the world-wide economic unsteadiness. The natural stone has demand and the tendency is the utilisation of these materials for the construction and the decoration when it is economically viable.

The quarries of ornamental stone find in a phase of change of pneumatics equipment to hydraulics equipment accionados automatically. The increase of power and the labour costs are promoting the modernisation of the fleet. “It is a good moment for the acquisition of Drill, together go to be able to offer modern equipment for an increasing market to world-wide level ", it says Markku Teräsvasara, president of the division of Equipment of Surface of Atlas Copco.

Drills is a private company, with headquarters in Bagnolo, in the north of Italy. At present it has 43 employees and a annual income of roughly 10 million euros. The products, that include saws of thread of diamond and equipment of perforación designed specifically for applications of ornamental stone, commercialise by means of direct selling and local distributors in determinate countries.

“Drills is a provider leader in this segment, with a strong approach in the customer and products of high quality”, self-evident Bob Fassl, president of the area of Technical business of Minería and Excavation of Rock of Atlas Copco. “We see good opportunities of growth with this agreement. Like part of the Group Atlas Copco, Drill turns into a world-wide provider of personalised equipment for producers of ornamental stone”.

Drills will integrate in the division Atlas Copco Surface Drilling. The parts have agreed not making public the price of purchase.

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