Hexagon measured forces
As well as other questions relating to this Council, the Assembly served to make public the results of the company during the past year, which show, it was said, that the structural changes initiated by Hexagon in June 2000 have worked successfully.
Stresses the increase in sales of 50% and above all, more at the present time in which profitability and margins are being affected by the situation of generalized weakness of the economies, the increase in the pre-tax of 78 319 million SEK, more than 34 million and a half euros.
As already reported MetalUnivers through its website Metalunivers.com, one of the most recent acquisitions of Hexagon was that of the French company Sud Mesure, through its subsidiary Swiss Tesa. Sud Mesure turnover of 2.2 million euros per year and is expected that this operation will contribute to the benefits of Hexagon during the month of April.
Through this purchase, the Swedish company Hexagon expands its business in the area of measurement without contact and continues to develop the area of three-dimensional vision manual equipment. The acquisition strengthens the program of equipment without-contact Tesa, which currently consists of Tesa Scan and Tesa Profile. The production of Sud Mesure of Avignon (France), will go down in facilities of Tesa in Renens (Switzerland).
The official launch of the new range of Tesa was held during the Fair Trade Control in Sinsheim (Germany), from 6 to 9 May.
As it is known, the last year, in October, Hexagon Metrology acquired the Italian Mirai, an Italian provider of software that was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Turin and Bologna. Since 1998, the company has specialized in computer applications to metallic iron, such as software tools of measurement and design of metal parts. Clients belong mainly to the aerospace industry and the automotive industry.
Brown & Sharpe, leading provider of products and services in precision dimensional metrology became a part of the Swedish holding company in the year 2000. In particular, Hexagon purchased all businesses and brands that Brown & Sharpe available worldwide including the DEA from Turin and Spanish structure of the organization.
Provide resources
Hexagon is a Swedish holding company whose strategy is the acquisition of medium-sized industrial companies primarily specialized in high technology and products of high quality with a global framework of operations, well known brands and structured distribution channels. It provides its companies the financial and managerial resources to ensure sustained growth in the long term with the aim of increasing the effectiveness and profitability.
