ASM Tech acquires Swedish firm Semcon

Bengaluru: ASM Technologies Limited (ASM), a global engineering and product R&D company has announced acquisition of Semcon's offshore delivery centre in India. Semcon, headquartered in Sweden, is an international technology company that helps their customers in transforming technology into excellent user experiences by uniting premium physical and digital solutions.

ASM has over two decades expertise in the semiconductor, hi-tech, automotive and medical industries while Semcon works with a large number of clients in the automotive industry, energy and life science sectors. With the acquisition, ASM Technologies will benefit from a combined talent pool with domain expertise in diverse industry verticals. In particular, ASM will build both scale and competence, relevant to the automotive industry as it transitions to new propulsion systems and ever-increasing levels of driver assistance and autonomy.

ASM and Semcon have also entered into a Global Cooperation Agreement to provide Semcon continued access to India's unrivalled scale and capability base for engineering services. Pursuant to the agreement, ASM will also deliver services to the Scandinavian market leveraging Semcon's customer-facing team. Both the companies will collaborate to scale by reciprocal access to a combined talent pool and strong capabilities in key areas such as product design and R&D, embedded and electronics, value engineering, digital engineering and manufacturing engineering.

Talking about the announcements, Rabindra Srikantan, Managing Director, ASM Technologies Limited, said, "The acquisition further strengthens our proposition for our clients while providing us with the additional scale and growth. We want to take this opportunity to welcome Semcon India employees into our fold and supporting us in our growth. The global agreement is a win-win deal since both the companies complement each other well in terms of respective capabilities and market leadership. We are eager to be joining forces with Semcon to accelerate innovation at scale for customers in existing and new markets."

"Our activities in India need to be scaled up in order to ensure delivery capacity and long-term profitability. We have reviewed different options to strengthen the operations in India. Instead of doing so organically, we have chosen to divest the operations to ASM Technologies, which already has a strong presence in India. At the same time, we have entered into a strategic cooperation agreement. This enhances value for our customers while allowing us to create the conditions to focus on other prioritized growth areas," says Markus Granlund, President and CEO of Semcon.