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15/10/2009
SENER buys the Instrumentation and Systems Division of the NTE, S.A. company
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With this takeover, SENER reinforces its capacities in spatial systems for manned
missions and life support systems in space, astronomy and science and
biomedical systems, and consolidates its position as a reference technology and
engineering group in the national and international aerospace sector. |
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Barcelona, October 15, 2009 - SENER has bought the Instrumentation and Systems
Division of NTE, S.A. from the Werfen group, whose core activity is essentially medical
systems, and comprises the business lines of spatial systems for manned missions and
life support systems in space, astronomy and science and the biomedical systems line.
With this takeover, the former Instrumentation and Systems Division of NTE, S.A.
becomes part of the NTE-SENER, S.A. company, 100%-owned by SENER, with Head
Offices in Catalonia and offices in Lliçà d’Amunt (Barcelona), where NTE is currently
sited. The management team of the new company is comprised of Gabriel Alarcón,
current director of the SENER Division in Barcelona, as Managing Director, and Albert
Tomàs and Francesc Gallart, Technical Director and Commercial Director of NTE,
respectively, who will continue to hold these posts at the head of NTE-SENER.
The contract was signed last October 8 at the Werfen Group Head Offices in Barcelona.
The Managing Director of NTE up to now, Pau Planas, and the Managing Director of
SENER, Jorge Unda, entered into the purchase agreement accompanied by the Werfen
Financial Manager, José Luis Martín, and the General Manager of SENER’s Aerospace
Business Strategic Unit, Rafael Quintana.
Following the signature, Jorge Unda declared: “With this acquisition, framed within our
2008–2010 Strategic Plan, we aim to bolster our leadership in aerospace actuation
systems, in which both SENER and NTE have a reference position on the international
market, and also in bioengineering, where NTE is very well positioned, an emerging
sector with a great future”. Pau Plans explained: “We make a very positive appraisal of
SENER's acquisition of the instrumentation and systems division, which will surely lead to
increased opportunities, both at business level and in the professional development of its
employees. Moreover, the operation will allow Werfen to focus on NTE's software activity
for in vitro diagnosis, which embarks upon a new era under the trade name Systelab.”
NTE (short for New Space Technologies, in Spanish) has achieved great prestige in the
Sector for its clinical and biomedical information systems, its mecatronic precision
products for application in space and biomedical systems, its optical and electro-optical
instruments, and its bioengineering systems and devices. SENER has purchased the
Instrumentation and Systems Division, which comprises the business lines of spatial
systems for manned missions and life support systems in space, astronomy and science
and the biomedical systems line, areas in which NTE develops activities that range from
feasibility and system studies to the supply of fully operational software systems and
hardware prototypes and small series that include product integration and verification. Its
main clients include institutions such as the European Southern Observatory (ESO) and
the European Space Agency (ESA). NTE is acknowledged for the quality of its products,
which are underpinned by a major effort in R&D.
NTE-SENER will take on all the professionals of the workforce of the aforementioned
division of NTE, highly-qualified workers that share the philosophy of excellence which
SENER is proud of, and who will enjoy total operating independence. Similarly, NTESENER
will afford continuity to all agreements the company had at the time of the takeover.
The constitution of NTE-SENER as a high-technology company, confirms SENER's
successful record in Catalonia, where it has been operating for seventeen years and is
already the reference engineering and technology group; the Company opened its offices
in Barcelona in 1993, and since then has developed high-tech projects in the civil
engineering sectors, with outstanding presence in the railway, architecture, aeronautical
engineering, marine engineering and power and process sectors. The new NTE-SENER
company will complement this activity with projects in the space, astronomy and
biomedicine sectors. SENER now employs a total workforce of 400 at its installations in
Barcelona and Lliçà d’Amunt. With this acquisition and the recent extension of the
Barcelona offices (where a facility of 1,100 m2 has been added to the three it already had
in the same building in calle Provença), its installations in Catalonia now amount to
5,500 m2 of offices, white rooms, integration offices and workshops. |
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