Sweden's ABB buys Spanish quality inspection company NUB3D
24/02/2017
Diego Gutiérrez
Sweden's ABB buys Spanish quality inspection company NUB3D
NUB3D, is a Spanish startup that develops measurement systems using 3D scanning by structured white light capable of enabling automated quality control inspection.
About NUB3D

Nub3D was founded in 1999 by Fernando Campo, Jorge Rodríguez and Carlos Camí in Catalonia. In 2012, FitalentEveris' venture capital fund, invested 400,000 euros in the company. The Barcelona-based company currently has an annual turnover of just under €1m and more than 15 employees.

Nub3D, which has been acquired for an undisclosed amount by ABB, will be integrated into ABB's robotics and motion division. Nub3D's products are used in automated inspection and quality control systems by steel and aluminium fabricators and processors, sheet metal stampers, mould and die makers during plastic metal forming, and by the automotive, goods and equipment industries, etc. The Barcelona-based company has an annual turnover of just under €1m and employs more than 15 people.

About ABB

ABB is a Swedish company and a world leader in electrical engineering and automation.

ABB's robotics division has an annual turnover of around €70m in Spain, approximately 10% of the Swiss multinational's revenue in our country, which in 2015 consolidated sales of €703m in Spain, with 2,218 employees.

Según Sami Atiya, presidente de la división de robótica de ABB «con esta adquisición nos acercamos un paso más a la fábrica del futuro. A medida que los procesos de automatización de nuestros clientes se hacen más avanzados y los ciclos de producción se acortan, la capacidad de automatizar de manera eficiente las inspecciones de calidad se convierte en una ventaja competitiva convincente».

ABB has already realised 8 acquisitions desde el 2008. Las últimas acquisitions las realizó en 2013, cuando compró la empresa californiana Los Gatos Research (LGR), especializada en soluciones analíticas para gases y líquidos basadas en un método llamado OA-ICOS  entre otras.
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