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Historic manufacturing company towards increased automation
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AnVa KSG's business consists of contract manufacturing for customers in the engineering industry. They have their roots in Nohab Industrier, which was the first company in what we now call the Innovatum area. Tomas Wahlberg, CEO of AnVa KSG, sees the partnership in the Production Technology Center (PTC) as a way to increase automation in the business.
- We are a manufacturing company and our workshop can be divided into three parts where one part works with larger welded structures in sheet metal. In another part we manufacture pipe systems where much is in stainless steel materials, and a third part deals with machining. Our largest customers are in the gas turbine industry and we deliver a lot to Siemens Energy in Finspång, for example.
The current company is a merger of KSG AB, which was previously located in Surte, and the remains of Nohab Industrier. Nohab Industrier was the first company on the Innovatum site in the early 1900s.
- We are now located in the same premises where Nohab has operated for many years, with a history dating back to the manufacture of steam locomotives over a hundred years ago.
Want to contribute to the competitiveness of Swedish industry
AnVa KSG is part of a privately owned group of about ten companies based in Västerås. The group's motto is to contribute to the competitiveness of Swedish industry in the world through reliable deliveries of high quality components. Tomas believes that membership in PTC can provide increased opportunities for AnVa KSG to develop its business in order to survive as a company in the long term.
- My view is that the cooperation strengthens companies in the region as I believe that manufacturing in Sweden is competitive. A lot of knowledge is built into our staff and our companies, but we need to refine that knowledge and the PTC is a good tool for this. We hope to be able to contribute with the knowledge we have but also be able to get hold of knowledge we lack, for example to increase the degree of automation in our current operations.
Where do you see yourself in 10 years?
- In 10 years, I think digitization and automation will affect us to a great extent. I hope that we can develop our business so well that we manage to increase the manufacturing business and my assessment is that we then need to keep up with modernized technology. The energy systems of the future will also need manufactured components, and in 10 years' time I believe that AnVa KSG will be a supplier to more customers and with more components than today.