Vacon was founded with a passion to develop and produce variable speed AC drives globally. We are proud to offer customers efficient, reliable and easy-to-use means for improving process control and saving energy and cost......Vacon was founded with a passion to develop and produce variable speed AC drives globally. We are proud to offer customers efficient, reliable and easy-to-use means for improving process control and saving energy and costs. Vacon’s solutions represent clean technology. They can be used to control the speed of electric motors used by industry and civil engineering, and in power generation using renewable energy. Vacon provides AC drives in the power range 0.25 kW - 5 MW. Revenues in 2007: EUR 232.2 million Production and R&D on three continents 20 subsidiaries and rep. offices Worldwide distributor network Investment in R&D ~ 7% Personnel ~ 1000 Since December 2000, Vacon’s share is quoted on the main list of the OMX Nordic Exchange, Helsinki Headquartered in Vaasa, Finland Passionate attitude towards product leadership Exclusively focused on variable speed AC drives, Vacon offers a unique blend of a dynamic and passionate attitude towards product leadership and customer services. Vacon is constantly working with a wide customer base where AC drives play an integral part of the business. Vacon concentrates only on the essential: improving the customer’s own product or process in order to bring the best possible value for the customer. With many years of experience in the field, we understand the customer’s needs and can offer the most cost-effective solution to meet them in terms of process efficiency, energy savings, eco-friendliness, and the total cost of ownership. Unique craftsmanship and R&D More than 1,000 Vacon professionals worldwide concentrate on one thing only: providing state-of-the-art AC drives as close to the customer as possible. The secret behind Vacon’s success lies in unique engineering craftsmanship and innovations. Vacon’s R&D is constantly investigating the best practices in the field that are most appropriate for customers. Today, as much as 7% of the revenues are invested into R&D, and our R&D units are located in Finland, China, USA and Italy. Therefore, we dare to say that Vacon AC drives make a difference in the market: whatever the need is - from the simplest to the most demanding - we are always open to take the challenge! Cleantech which brings substantial savings Vacon AC drives are 100% cleantech. Cleantech refers to all products, services, processes and systems that are less harmful to the environment than their alternatives. Vacon AC drives represent technology that not only helps you save in energy costs but also significantly improves the process control in your business. If all AC motors in the world were equipped with Vacon AC drives, it could give savings of about 30% in the energy consumption of AC motors. This saving is about 10% of the world’s total consumption of electrical energy. Attractive partner Vacon has a unique position in the market. It is an independent company that can focus entirely on developing AC drives. A global network combined with local production in different parts of the world makes Vacon an attractive business partner on all continents. Roughly 30% of Vacon’s revenues comes from sales to longterm OEM partners, and about 20% comes from sales to system integrators. Vacon also offers brand label customers, distributors, and industrial end-users a broad product portfolio and a high level of product and application expertise. Global production & multichannel product and service network Vacon currently manufactures AC drives in Finland, China, Italy and the United States. Adapting products as close as possible to the customer gives flexible production and short delivery times. Vacon AC drives are sold in more than 100 countries. We have subsidiaries, business partners and service centers around the world. We increase our local presence systematically, ensuring good availability of products and service wherever you are. Vacon grows at a fast pace For many years, Vacon has been growing three times faster than the global AC drive market. Today, Vacon is one of the biggest AC drives manufacturers in the world. Vacon’s main competitors are global conglomerates, for which AC drives are just one product among many. The growth in the AC drive market is based on rising energy prices, increasing automation, and falling electronics prices. There is room for growth in the market, for at the moment only about 10% of the electric motors in the world are controlled by AC drives.