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Company

Sapa Group

President and CEO

Mr Svein Tore Holsether

Net sales

34,100 million SEK (2012)

Number of employees

14,700 (2012)

Production

Belgium, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Italy, Lithuania, Mexico, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, UK, USA, Vietnam.

Sales Offices

In the above and in Austria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Japan, Latvia, Mocambique, Norway, South Korea, Switzerland, Turkey and United Arab Emirates.

Operations

Development, manufacturing, value-added and sales operations of aluminium profiles. Aluminium profile based building systems (Sapa Building System) and heat transfer solutions in aluminium (Sapa Heat Transfer).

Market share:

The market shares for Sapa Profiles is 14 per cent in Europe and 29 per cent in North America. Sapa Building System is one of the largest suppliers of building systems based on aluminium profiles in Europe with a market share of 7% and up to 40% for specific markets. Sapa Heat Transfer has a global market share of 21 per cent.

Note: EAA (European Aluminium Association) market size calculation changed from Apparent total consumption to shipments in Sep 2010.

Year of establishment

1963