ESAB is a world-leading international welding and cutting company.
It formulates, develops, manufactures and supplies consumable products and equipment for use in the cutting and joining of steels, aluminium and metal alloys.
ESAB’s comprehensive range of welding consumables includes electrodes, cored and solid wires, and fluxes. ESAB’s welding equipment ranges from small retail uses to large plant in the energy and shipbuilding sectors.
ESAB’s sales are split broadly evenly between the developed economies of Western and Northern Europe and North America, and the developing economies of Central, Eastern and Southern Europe, South America and Asia. ESAB derives over 80 per cent of its sales from welding consumables and equipment and the remainder from cutting and automation solutions.
ESAB’s manufacturing facilities are located predominantly in low cost locations, in particular in Central and Eastern Europe, South America and Asia. ESAB has invested heavily in new capacity in China to meet the needs of domestic customers as well as supplying other parts of the world.
Further growth will come through ESAB increasing its sales of welding consumables, particularly in emerging economies, and increasing the range and market penetration of its equipment and automation businesses, which it will do through a combination of organic growth and acquisition.