Type | Private |
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Genre | Mechanics |
Founded | 1918 |
Headquarters | , Sweden |
Parent | Schouw & Co., Denmark |
Specma is a company in Sweden. It is one of Sweden's biggest producers of gaskets and seals for Swedish industry.
The company was founded in 1918. [1] It was known as Specialmaskiner AB, hence the shortened name Specma.
Specma was acquired by the Danish group Schouw & Co. in January 2016, and in April 2022 it was consolidated into Hydra-Grene (also owned by Schouw & Co.) for a consideration of 650 million Danish Krone. [2]
In 2019 the company opened a further 7000 square metre manufacturing facility in Stargard, Poland. [1]
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