
Siemens Metals Technologies, a division of the Siemens Group Industrial Solutions and Services is merging its components business in the metallurgical plant building industry and has taken over the remaining 50 percent of the supplier, Shape Technology Ltd, Bournemouth/UK.
Shape Technology employs approximately 60 employees and recently achieved sales in the amount of 20 million euros with their measuring, filter and pickling tank systems.
Shape Technology was founded in 2001 and was most recently a 50:50 affiliated company of Siemens VAI Metals Technologies with Foray 1315 Limited, Dorset/UK- a purely holding company. In addition to the headquarters in UK, Shape Technology also has a 100% subsidiary company in the USA.
Shape Technology offers a series of measurement systems for the metals industry which are required in the individual process steps in metals rolling and processing. These are mainly mechatronic instruments for the geometric quality control information which measure and record the shape and profile conditions of the metal. Additionally, Shape Technology also sells coolant filtration as well as pickling tank systems for cooling and pickling agents that are used continuously during the process.
Shape Technology will introduce its products in plant building as a separate subdivision within the global organization of Siemens Metals Technologies, and also continue to sell its products to third parties. -Siemens
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