Ibermática acquires the Portuguese firm Sqédio

Ibermática has closed the year driving the process of growth and expansion, particularly into Portugal, which is made with 100 per cent of the Portuguese group Sqédio. This operation allows the company to enter new markets, strengthening the activity of your business unit C4, product featured in the Spanish market of technological solutions for the industry. In parallel with the acquisition of Sqédio, the 'Business solutions' Division of Ibermática has opened a new headquarters in Lisbon. It's a first step on which progress in the development of Ibermática in Portugal.

In view of the maximum head of Sqédio, Joao Carles Lopes Ribeiro, "with Ibermática integration, our customers is eligible of a broader technological solutions catalogue, which will allow them to improve their processes and improve the effectiveness of their organizations." "Sqédio is a company specialized in the implementation of innovative solutions in Cad/Cam/Cae and PLM Solidworks, we can now provide our industrial customers the possibility of integrating the information in all its areas of activity". For the Director General of Ibermática, Joseba Ruiz de Alegría, "this operation comes true the objective of Ibermática start an own development in Europe, through the acquisition of local companies, always as an accompaniment to the growth of activity in new markets." "The acquisition of Sqédio is a highly specialized company Ibermática integration, but will allow us to build an own platform in the Portuguese market on which strengthen the development of Ibermática as a global supplier of ICT solutions and services in that country."

Founded in 1995, Sqédio has more than ten years of experience in the market, where it acts as a supplier of technological solutions for companies. During this time has grown organic and consistently, with about thirty professionals and four delegations at this time: Vigo, Lisbon, Oporto and, most recently, in Gijón. These locations serve to give a rapid and efficient response to your clients, because the company is well placed in areas where the industrial tissue is denser. Thus, the Sqédio group, a company that operates in Portugal and another making it in Spain, currently has more than 300 companies customers belonging to various industrial sectors.