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02.12.2009 News
Betoniluoma, Finland takes advantage of the new ELSA-line
Betoniluoma of Teuva, Finland invested into a full ELSA-production line for manufacture of top quality sanwich facades.
ELSA-line is part of the Best Walls concept Elematic offers to its customers. ELSA is a modern circulating line with a crossing module, curing chamber and FaMe for manufacture of all kinds of individual facades and walls economically, and ecologically.
Betoniluoma Oy, known as manufacturer of high quality facades and walls was the first to invest into a full ELSA-line. The company built a new factory hall for the new investment and production started in September 2009.
Watch a short video on the ELSA line in operation.
For more information, please conact Elematic Sales.
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02.12.2009 News
Coming up ! Precast Academy with renewed program
Pre-announcement to the Sixth Precast Academy.
In June 2010 the Precast Academy on Hollow-core slab takes place in Tampere Finland.Listening to the participants and customers, Elematic has renewed the program of the Precast Academy, Module I.
The actual program with lectures, workshops, site and factory visits takes 3 days. In addition the day before the official program is reserved for meetings with Elematic and collegues.
Environmental and energy issues are the leading topics of day one, followed by plant and site excursions day. A full day will be reserved for workshops on: Plant Investment, Hollow-core factory and production process, and Maintenance & Service.
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11.09.2009 News
Elematic launches a new extruder E9
E9, the fourth generation extruder from Elematic is the answer to customer feedback
The new, durable, E9 comes out with many improvements in e.g. mass container, strand guide, and levelling beam. Not only that, but E9 has improved compacting ability with compacting automation assistance, inverter drive in feeding screws, higher usability, and it is safe.
The extruder E9 is designed to make even 500 mm thick hollow-core slabs and it is rigid and sturdy.
Simplified structure and totally new user interface and control system make its use and maintenance easy with longer maintenance frequency.For more information, visit www.precastfountain.com/extruder
or find your contact person at Contact Us page Elematic Sales.
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26.06.2009 Press releases
Elematic 50 years: Press release. Precast concrete - the environmentally friendly alternative
Elematic Oy Ab
- Supplying the precast concrete industry with machinery, equipment and services since 1959Elematic Oy Ab is one of the success stories of the Finnish mechanical engineering industry, which is renowned for its innovative and high-quality products. The company is the undisputed technology and market leader in precast concrete plants, production lines, machinery and equipment worldwide, and, during the last two years, it has also been Finland's most profitable business in terms of return on capital invested. Almost 95 per cent of the net sales is generated outside Finland, more than half of the total coming from the Middle East.Even though the fifty-year-old company has been hit by the recession like everybody else, megatrends are in its favor. Constructors' choices are increasingly determined by concerns about the climate change and, in this respect, precast concrete is the most environmentally friendly option.
The heating and cooling of buildings are the biggest sources of carbon dioxide. As Leo Sandqvist, Managing Director of Elematic, points out, because of their structure, precast concrete wall elements act as an effective insulation material in both warm and cold environments, and help to achieve substantial cuts in energy consumption.
Higher energy prices are an additional incentive to use energy-efficient solutions. High funding costs are also a factor, making precast concrete more attractive, at least in the short term. Time is money and building with precast elements is quick. Furthermore, according to Sandqvist, the precast concrete structures produced with today's technologies are, in terms of appearance and variety, light years away from the monotony of the past decades.
Professionals in the sector know Elematic as a trailblazer pioneering new ideas. The company's innovative approach is evident in a large number of patents and stylishly designed production lines, machinery and equipment, for which the company has received several awards. The new extruder, to be introduced this summer, is another step forward in streamlined design and intelligent functions.
With net sales of EUR 137 million, the Elematic Group is in a class of its own. Its largest competitors are far behind at EUR 30-40 million. Elematic has the Middle East, the CIS, the Baltic States and Western Europe as its main markets. The strong position of the Finnish company on the global markets is partly explained by many years' experience in exports. Elematic has been an international player since the 1960s. After all, Finland is a small country and the company would not have been able to grow without exports.
According to Sandqvist, the fact that Elematic is able to provide a broad range of products and solutions is another important success factor. Elematic is the only one-stop-supplier in and its range of products and services covers everything from equipment and machines to production lines and complete plants. Services include training of customer personnel, supervision of installation and extensive support functions.
As the Group's own production capacity is limited, the machinery and equipment sold by Elematic are built in manufacturing plants, most of which are located in Finland.
Elematic has seen a number of corporate acquisitions and name changes during its history. Between 1973 and 1997, its principal owner was Partek, a big multi-sectoral group, and the company was known as Partek Concrete Engineering (PCE). Since 2007, Elematic has been owned by the company management and a private equity fund administered by Pamplona Capital Management.
Elematic has its headquarters in Toijala, which is located about 25 miles south of Tampere, a well-known center of mechanical engineering and automation industries. The company has subsidiaries in the United States (Elematic Inc.), Germany (Elematic GmbH) and Russia (Elematic OOO). It also maintains a sales and customer service center in Dubai and a sales office in France. The manufacturing units are Rimera Oy, X-Tec Oy and SF Steelform Oy. Elematic has a workforce of about 200.
To mark fifty years of operations, Elematic has published a book on its history. The publication is available in Finnish and English. On June 26, the anniversary of the founding of the company, Elematic's customer magazine ‘Concrete Issues' will appear in a thoroughly revised form. The publication will now also be available as an interactive web magazine.
For more information, please contact CEO Leo Sandqvist, leo.sandqvist@elematic.com, tel. +358 400 481218
For pictures and other media material, please contact Päivi Talonen, paivi.talonen@elematic.com, + 358 40 5265875
Elematic in a nutshell
Founded in 1959
Net sales EUR 137 million (2008)
Exports account for 95 per cent of the production, with the Middle East, Western Europe, the Baltic States and the CIS as the main markets.
Personnel 22
Main product range: Flooring technologies (extruder and slipformer-based); Batching & mixing plants with concrete distribution systems; Acotec partition wall technology; Various technologies for such products as general precast concrete walls, facades, beams, columns and railroad ties; ELiPLAN ERP and other softwareElematic milestones
1959 Toijalan Teräsvalmiste, Veljekset Virtanen (TTV) is established.
1965 The first circulating line is supplied to Haka, a Finnish construction company.
1966 Elematic is introduced as a brand name.
1967 Sales of battery molds to Sweden mark the start of the exports of concrete element production technology.
1969 A subsidiary is established in West Germany.
1971 The company supplies its first production line for hollow-core slabs (VARIAX).
1973 The company is acquired by Partek.
1976 First sales to the Middle East: the company supplies the machinery and equipment for a hollow-core slab plant in Kuwait.
1976 Two large orders for plants from East Germany.
1981 Elematic's business is divided into the design unit Elematic Engineering and the manufacturing unit Konepaja Toijala (now Toijala Works).
1984 By acquiring Dy-Core the company is able to expand its operations to Canada.
1985 The company achieves a breakthrough on the Soviet markets. The orders include a plant for manufacturing single-family homes.
1988 Elematic Engineering is established as a Partek subsidiary.
1990 The company receives its first order from South Korea.
1992 As a result of the restructuring of Lohja and Partek, Elematic Engineering and Lohja Parma Engineering are merged to form Partek Concrete Engineering Oy.
1995 Leo Sandqvist is appointed Managing Director.
Elematic launches the world's first extruder in which special attention is paid to design. The new product (EL900E) receives a number of design awards.
1996 PCE acquires Roth GmbH, a German company, and Mecakone Oy, a Finnish manufacturer of batching and mixing plants.
1997 Partek sells PCE to Addtek Group (known as Consolis since 2003). The company is renamed PCE Engineering.
1998 PCE Engineering sets up a subsidiary in the USA (PCE Elematic Inc.).
1999 PCE Engineering acquires Rimera Oy, a Finnish mechanical engineering company and one of its subcontractors.
2000 PCE Engineering opens a customer service center in Toijala.
2001 PCE Engineering acquires Acotec Oy, a Finnish precast concrete manufacturer.
2003 Elematic is adopted as the company name.
2004 Elematic acquires Roteco GmbH, a German equipment manufacturer.
2006 Consolis sells Elematic to Sentica Partners; Elematic becomes an independent group.
Elematic aquires X-Tec Oy, one of its Finnish competitors.
2006 Elematic acquires SF Steelform Oy, a Finnish manufacturer of precast concrete molds.
2007 A private equity fund administered by Pamplona Capital Management becomes the principal owner of Elemactic Oy Ab.
2009 Elematic celebrates fifty years of operations.What actually happened at Elematic when Apollo 11 landed in the moon, when John Lennon claimed the Beatles to be more popular than Jesus, when Princess Diana died, when Mohammed Ali lost his first match to Joe Frazier, when the Concorde did its first flight or when Barak Obama becomes the President of United States? Get a closer look here!
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11.06.2009 News
Column-making made easy with new Elematic mold utilizing FaMe
Elematic has launched a new kind of modular mold for beams and columns. The modular structure makes it easy to assemble, disassemble and store the molds. The new mold is also lighter and more durable than the traditional molds thanks to new material, and easily adjustable.
Side forms are quickly fastened into casting bed with Elematic FaMe fastening method. The method saves a lot of space in the production hall since there is no longer need for support triangles outside the mold. The new mold is also a showcase for the versatility of FaMe; it can be used with variable kinds of molds, the use isn't restricted to table and battery molds.
User feedback has been very encouraging and customers have been delighted about the possibilities of the new concept.
For more information, please contact sales@elematic.com or fame@elematic.com.
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20.05.2009 News
Battery Mold: FaMe adds safety and speeds up furnishing
Maximum flexibility with maximum safety called by the customers, and Elematic develops a new, flexible and universal FaMeFlex solution to Battery Molds. In this new application the magnets, profiles and side plates remain fixed even when the system is dismantled thus adding safety to the whole process.
FaMe in Battery Molds is already successfully introduced and in use in Finland, Sweden, UK, Netherlands, Mexico and in the Middle East.
"This new way of using FaMe has already proved to be what expected. We did not hesitate to go for it, since we trust Elematic's expertise as the one-stop-supplier to the precasters", says Mr Harri Bergholm, factory manager of Parma, Kotka, and adds, "and although designed from battery mold's point of view it can be used on other steel tables also - a big advantage."
Also other users are very satisfied with higher speed of furnishing batteries and increasing safety. Even the sceptical ones have given attributes like: fast, light, safe, easy to use,easy and economical to modify.Just change the side plate material (e.g. steel, plywood, plastic, wood) or hight and furnish any wall from 70 mm onwards.
For more information contact fame@elematic.com or find your own contact person from Contact us.
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30.03.2009 News
Mexico: GCC starts production of precast walls with Elematic battery mold
Mexican company GCC expands its precast production by adding on a new wall production technology. GCC can now offer complete precast building system from low-cost housing to various applications in commercial, educational and residential buildings.
GCC, Grupo Cementos de Chihuahua (www.gcc.com) is a producer of cement, premixed concrete, aggregates and precast concrete products. Company's headquarters are situated in Chihuahua, Mexico but it has operations in several other cities in Northern Mexico, Bolivia and in the Midwestern United States. The company has now started wall production in Salamayuca, 35 km south from Juárez, Mexico with new Elematic battery mold thus pioneering with it in Mexico.
GCC uses this battery mold for manufacturing of façades and internal walls. The size of the mold is 3,1 x 8,1 m. In addition to actual battery mold Elematic also delivered Fastening Method system (FaMe) needed in the production as well as supervision services in Mexico and training for precast concrete element designing and installation in Finland. This delivery was a start for a business relationship between GCC and Elematic and at the same time opened a new market area for Elematic being Elematic's first delivery in Mexico.
The novelty in this new kind of battery mold lies in the fact that the capacity of a standard battery mold has been nearly doubled by means of a so-called shutter plate. This means that the casting cell of an existing battery mold is halved with a new shutter plate that is moved by means of a crane. Besides the doubled capacity of each casting cell, the leading idea of the system is two castings per day; only casting and hardening take place inside the battery mold, demolding and outfitting are carried out elsewhere. This speeds up the production cycle and increases the capacity. Further advantages are that the molds require less space and are easy to use.
"Elematic was a good choice for us because they had the perfect solution for our needs. They are a trusted partner and have a long experience in precast machinery," says Juan Carlos Ares Cárdenas, GCC Constructive Systems Manager.
For more information, please see www.gcc.com or sales@elematic.com
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15.01.2009 News
100. complete precast factory delivery from Elematic to the Middle East goes to alfanar, Saudi-Arabia
Saudi Arabian alfanar Co. invests into a complete precast factory producing hollow-core slabs, wall and façade elements and concrete beams and columns.
Elematic has been present in the Middle Eastern market since 1976. In the last few years construction market in the Middle East has been booming and Elematic has also got its part of this boom. Several precast plants have been delivered by Elematic to e.g. Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain and Qatar. Nowadays an Elematic-based precast factory can be found practically in every country in the Arabian Peninsula.
One of the most recent major Elematic projects in this area is the delivery of the new alfanar precast plant in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. alfanar Co. Ltd. is a multi-industry company engaged in manufacturing, construction, building industry, real estate development, marine services, information technology and communication, industrial ventures and investments.
Now they have also decided to diversify their operations into the construction material business and into precast. The contract with Elematic was signed 30 September 2008. The delivery includes: concrete batching and mixing plant, extruder-based hollow-core slab production line circulating line for façade and wall production including Elematic FaMe Flex system and plotting machine, concrete distribution system, ELiPLAN enterprise resource planning software as well as hydraulic tilting molds for special products, TT-molds and beam and column molds. The plant will thus be equipped to produce all needed precast elements for complete buildings.
"For this big project we wanted to choose an experienced partner for a complete precast solution. Elematic being the only one-stop supplier was therefore a safe choice for us", says the Managing Director, Mr. Hisham Al Mutlaq of alfanar.
The deliveries phase is planned to start in the beginning of February, the delivery should be completed during the first quarter of 2009.
"Middle East has been a long time now a strong market area for Elematic and we hope that this trend will continue also in the future", concludes Elematic's Sales Director Petri Vesa.
Elematic has sales office and warehouse in Dubai, close and ready to serve all Elematic customers in the area.
For more info, please contact Elematic sales.
