卡尔玛计划将中国的部分起重机设计工作转移到埃特博朗公司
卡尔玛新闻摘要，2020年12月25日
卡尔玛计划将中国的部分起重机设计工作转移到一家国际工程设计公司——埃特博朗（Etteplan）。根据该计划的长期协议，卡尔玛旨在通过确保模块可扩展性和成本竞争力，提高在中国的起重机设计工作的效率。
双方已就埃特博朗提供的服务签署了一份协议。根据协议大约70名卡尔玛员工，将按计划调职到埃特博朗。转移计划预计于2021年1月1日开始。完成转移后，调动的员工在一段时间内将继续担任他们目前的岗位和工作。
“我们的目标是通过外包部分在中国的起重机设计工作来提高竞争力。在2020年6月重组我们早前在中国合资企业后，这是顺其自然的下一步。在埃特博朗的专家网络和全球业务的支持下，我们将能够确保设计工作的可扩展性，统一不同产品和技术解决方案之间的设计能力和流程，实现协同效应，从而为我们的客户提供更好的服务。”卡尔玛产品和解决方案副总裁Toni Söderlund表示。
Kalmar, part of Cargotec, plans to transfer part of its crane engineering in China to Etteplan, a globally operating engineering company. With the planned long-term agreement Kalmar aims to improve the efficiency of its crane engineering operations in China by ensuring scalability and cost competitiveness.
The parties have signed an agreement regarding the services to be provided by Etteplan. As a consequence, approximately 70 Kalmar engineering employees in China are planned to move to Etteplan. The planned transfer is expected to take place on 1 January 2021. After that, the transferring employees will initially continue to work from their current locations in their current roles and tasks.
“We are aiming to improve our competitiveness by outsourcing part of the crane engineering operations in China. This is a natural step for us after reorganising our earlier Chinese joint venture in June 2020. With the support of Etteplan’s expert network and global footprint, we will be able to safeguard the scalability of our engineering operations, unify engineering competencies and processes between different products and technical solutions and realise synergies, resulting in better service for our customers,” says Toni Söderlund, Vice President, Products and Solutions, Kalmar.
“Measured by the number of people, this is among the largest outsourcing agreements in Etteplan’s history and happens in China, which is one of our strategic growth markets. I warmly welcome the some 70 new experts to the Etteplan team. The agreement shows that our outsourcing solutions are effective and it undoubtedly strengthens our market position in China”, says Riku Riikonen, Senior Vice President of Engineering Solutions at Etteplan.
Etteplan provides solutions for industrial equipment and plant engineering, software and embedded solutions, and technical documentation solutions to the world’s leading companies in the manufacturing industry. In 2019, Etteplan had a turnover of approximately EUR 263 million. The company currently has more than 3,400 professionals in Finland, Sweden, the Netherlands, Germany, Poland and China. Etteplan's shares are listed on Nasdaq Helsinki Ltd under the ETTE ticker.
Further information for the press:
Toni Söderlund, Vice President, Products and Solutions, Kalmar, toni.soderlund@kalmarglobal.com
Maija Eklöf, Vice President, Marketing and Communications, Kalmar, tel. +358 20 777 4096, maija.eklof@kalmarglobal.com
Kalmar offers the widest range of cargo handling solutions and services to ports, terminals, distribution centres and to heavy industry. Kalmar is the industry forerunner in terminal automation and in energy efficient container handling, with one in four container movements around the globe being handled by a Kalmar solution. Through its extensive product portfolio, global service network and ability to enable a seamless integration of different terminal processes, Kalmar improves the efficiency of every move. www.kalmarglobal.com
Kalmar is part of Cargotec. Cargotec's (Nasdaq Helsinki: CGCBV) sales in 2019 totalled approximately EUR 3.7 billion and it employs around 12,000 people. www.cargotec.com
