Nefab and SCA enter alliance
Nefab and SCA enter alliance Nefab and SCA Packaging have entered into a strategic alliance within the industrial packaging sector. This will enable both companies to offer their customers full service industrial packaging solutions. Active in 30 countries worldwide, the companies will now work together to jointly develop products, services, marketing, sales and logistics, which are aimed at a broad range of customers in the industrial products sector. Packaging for industrial goods includes packaging for telecom equipments and automotive parts to solutions for bulk chemical products. To ensure the relationship works seamlessly, a steering group is being formed with equal representation from both companies. As a general rule, the companies agree to work together, giving the lead role to the party having the stronger position with a particular customer or area of expertise. If advantageous for customers, storage and service facilities will be shared. There will also be a close collaboration with the new global protective packaging division currently being created by SCA in North America. The division is based on the North American company Tuscarora Inc., which was recently acquired by SCA. "This alliance is an ideal match. Both companies are committed to expanding their range of products and services, globally, and we complement each other well in terms of market presence, business sectors and customers," says Lars-Åke Rydh, Nefab's CEO. "Nefab's expertise in industrial packaging combined with SCA Packaging's market leadership in corrugated, means our customers can now benefit from the most comprehensive range of industrial packaging solutions available in the market," says Marc Conaerts, Managing Director of SCA Packaging's Industrial Division. For further information, contact CEO Lars-Åke Rydh, tel.+46-70-592 45 70, e-mail lars-ake.rydh@nefab.se or Director of Sales & Marketing Bo Angelstrand, tel.+46-70-558 26 15 or email bo.angelstrand@nefab.se Jönköping 2001-05-08 Lars-Åke Rydh President and CEO Nefab delivers complete packaging solutions to international industrial groups, primarily within the telecom equipment and automotive industry. Nefab has its own companies in Europe, North and South America and Asia. Annual sales in 2000 were approximately E 123 million. The company currently employs 1,200 people. Nefab is listed on the OM Stockholm Exchange. Detailed information about the company and its products can be found at our web site: www.nefab.com SCA Packaging is a Business Group of the Swedish company SCA. With Europe as its primary market, SCA is a leading producer of hygiene-, packaging- and forest products. Detailed information about the company and its products can be found at our web site: www.sca.se SCA Packaging is Europe's leading corrugated packaging company with more than 200 locations in 29 countries, mostly in Europe. It produces some 35 million boxes and trays of corrugated board every day. The company also produces 2.5 million tons of containerboard at its ten European paper mills. Net sales reached E 2.9 billion in 2000. The company currently employs more than 18,000 people. ------------------------------------------------------------ This information was brought to you by BIT http://www.bit.se The following files are available for download: http://www.bit.se/bitonline/2001/05/08/20010508BIT00420/bit0001.doc http://www.bit.se/bitonline/2001/05/08/20010508BIT00420/bit0001.pdf