Sokymat and Metget join forces within ASSA ABLOY ITG
05 April, 2004
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The “New” Sokymat becomes number one supplier of RFID transponders worldwide
Granges (Veveyse), April 5th 2004 – ASSA ABLOY Identification Technology Group (ITG), the world’s leading supplier of identification solutions,
announces today the merger of its two RFID transponder manufacturers, Metget
AB and Sokymat SA, under the name of Sokymat.
The new company will be headquartered in Granges, in the heart of French
speaking Switzerland, and will maintain all of the existing product
engineering and manufacturing facilities, both in Sweden and in Switzerland.
Combining the resources of the two leading players Sokymat and Metget, the
new Sokymat positions itself as the number one supplier of RFID transponders
worldwide.
Sokymat will continue to focus on manufacturing excellence in order to
maintain the two companies’ traditional roles as high quality, low cost RFID
component suppliers. With a joint process development team, Sokymat will
further enhance its patented transponder manufacturing technology,
guaranteeing the company’s overall competitiveness in the global market.
The community of business partners that established strong and fruitful
relationships with Sokymat and Metget until today will greatly benefit from
the company’s enhanced flexibility. They will gain access to the most
comprehensive RFID transponder product portfolio available on the market
today as well as the support of an engineering team with unrivaled
experience in all areas of radio frequency identification, both in terms of
frequencies (125/134.2 kHz, 13.56 MHz and UHF) and in terms of RFID system
components (chips, tags, antennae and readers).
“I believe that the fact that Sokymat and Metget join forces will be very
positive for all of our customers,” says André Ziegler – CEO of Sokymat SA –
“We bring together two management teams fully committed to technology and
manufacturing excellence. Our customers will benefit from the closeness we
can guarantee through an expanded global sales organization and from the
variety of our unique offering, spanning from RFID cards and labels, to tags
in any format and suitably packaged for operation in virtually any type of
environment.”
Fredrik Hansson – former CEO of Metget and new Executive Vice President of
Sokymat – comments: “Joining these two highly experienced teams, we will
have a powerful and active global sales force dedicated to customer
service, while the flexibility offered by the widest product portfolio in
the field of RFID transponder solutions will enable Sokymat customers to
enter new markets and grow their business.”