BUFAB

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- our owner
Finnveden is an international manufacturing Group
with focus on automotive industry

• Annual turnover 500 mio
• No of employees 3 220
• Listed on the Swedish Stock exchange

Fasteners
Powertrain
Metal Structures
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• One of Europes five largest suppliers of
  fasteners for European automotive industry

• Employees 816
• Turnover 120 mio
• Factories in
• Sweden, Poland, Germany, China
• Main customers
• Volvo, Autoliv, Bosch, Fiat, Ford, Opel, Nissan.

Fasteners
BUFAB
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• Second biggest in the world as it comes to valve
  actuation components and connecting rods

• Employees 950
• Turnover 110 mio
• Factories in Sweden
• Main customers
• Volvo, Scania, Ford, Bosch

Powertrain
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• Leading supplier of steel sheet components to
  the Scandinavian automotive industry.

• Employees 800
• Turnover 110 mio
• Factories in Sweden. Sub-contracting in the
  Baltic states and Poland
• Main customers
• Volvo Truck Car, Saab

Metal Structures
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Customer base - Finnveden
Cars 40,7 Others 5,8 Electronics/ Telecom
2,1 Engineering industry 16,6 Commercial
vehicles 34,8
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Markets and sales - Finnveden
Turnover development (MSEK)
Sweden 61
EU 33
Others 6
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BUFAB
The largest fastenersupplier to the engineering
industry in Scandinavia
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BUFAB in brief

• Turnover approx. 110 mio
• Approx. 470 employees
• Largest fastener supplier in Scandinavia
• Subsidiaries throughout Europe
• Financial strength

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BUFAB the branches
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The customers
Customers served
Markets served
Sectors served

• Engineering
• Automotive
• Telecom
• Electronics
• Furniture

Scandinavia 23
EU 2
Non EU 8
Germany 7
Sweden 60
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The offer
Powerful assortment
Competitive pricing
International presence
Logistic skill
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Powerful assortment
Global sourcing
Manufacturing in Bufab Lann
Adding value
Continuously approx. 100 000 different items in
stock!
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Powerful assortment

• Production methods available
• Cold forging
• Hot forming
• Metal stamping
• Turning
• Injection moulding
• Bagging operations
• Assembling

Non-standard parts represents approx 50 of the
turnover. And increasing
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Competitive pricing

• Bufab truly recognised buyer in Far East
• Volumes big enough to attract the large
  manufacturers world wide
• Combined purchasing in the Bufab Group
• Logistical skill forwarding is kept on a cost
  efficient level
• Shortest distance between two points will always
  be a straight line!!
• Cost is added as you handle goods by hand
• State-of-the-art IT-systems
• Fully automatic warehouse

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International presence

• European presense
• International contracts - Domestic sales and
  distribution
• Cultural knowledge
• No language barriers
• Domestic security stocks
• Cost efficient forwarding
• Cost efficient stock holding

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Logistics / IT

• Sufficient system monitoring forecasts
• Creates security stocks
• Creates alarms for increased/decreased
  consumption
• Implemented systems for various logistical
  platforms
• Internal KanBan
• External KanBan
• Line feeding

Lets cut indirect costs for mutual benefit