Munich, 28. November 2023 – ROBUR, the industrial services specialist for digital transformation and ecological change founded in Munich in 2015, will become part of SPIE and thus significantly strengthen SPIE’s range of services in the field of industrial services. Following completion of the transaction, ROBUR will be established as a separate division of SPIE Deutschland & Zentraleuropa, which will continue to be led by Jan-Jörg Müller-Seiler and his experienced management team.
„Since 2015, there have been regular reports of companies becoming part of ROBUR. Now we are pleased to announce the signing with SPIE. This means that ROBUR will become part of SPIE,” says Jan-Jörg Müller-Seiler, Managing Director/CEO and Managing Partner of ROBUR, explaining the latest development within ROBUR.
„As an industrial services specialist, we support our customers in the digital and ecological transformation of their plants. We can only master these challenges in partnership. We have grown continuously since 2015, have been able to recruit many specialists for the ROBUR vision and have developed into a top 10 industrial services specialist with our approximately 3,000 colleagues and our customers. Many thanks for this!”, Müller-Seiler continues and adds: “As part of SPIE, we can drive forward our goal of consolidating and expanding our leading position as a specialist for high-quality industrial services in an increasingly digitalized and ecologically changing market even more strongly. There are also excellent development prospects for our colleagues“.
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ROBUR will become part of SPIE Deutschland & Zentraleuropa, making it the third platform acquisition of SPIE Group in Germany and Central Europe, which, like ROBUR, is pursuing a strong growth course. “Within ten years, we have built SPIE Deutschland & Zentraleuropa into the leading multi-technology service provider. We are the market leader in technical facility management and a leading service provider in the energy infrastructure market, we have a strong position in building, transportation and automation technology as well as in the field of information and communication services. With ROBUR, we are now also becoming clearly visible in industrial services,” says Markus Holzke, Managing Director/CEO of SPIE Germany & Central Europe, outlining the growth course and continues: “Our growth ambition continues. We want to further expand our market position. Our aim is to be our customers’ partner of choice for technical services when it comes to their climate-friendly and digital future.“
SPIE Deutschland & Zentraleuropa is a subsidiary of SPIE Group, the independent European market leader for multi-technical services. With over 48,000 employees, SPIE Group is committed to a climate-friendly and digital future. In 2022, the company generated a consolidated turnover of 8.1 billion euros.
ROBUR’s broad range of services in the field of industrial services throughout the life cycle of its customers’ plants is of particular interest to SPIE. Be it in wind power as an important renewable energy source in Germany and Europe or in the digitalization and automation of production processes to increase efficiency.
„Florian Kopp, Jens Cremer and I founded ROBUR in 2015 because we wanted to redefine industrial services in Germany, Europe and the world in the face of the challenges of digital and ecological transformation. It was always clear to us that we could only realize this vision with strong partners – with our original investors, with the managers in our acquired partner companies, but above all with all our colleagues. We are proud that with SPIE we have found a group that will now continue this vision and success story of ROBUR under the SPIE brand,” explains Daniel Beringer, Founder and Managing Partner of ROBUR.
„ROBUR is characterized by partnership, whether in our understanding of each other or in our interaction with our customers. After all, the challenges of digital transformation and ecological change can only be mastered together. We have also found this spirit of partnership, characterized by openness, honesty, and an enthusiasm for innovative solutions for customers, in all our discussions with the SPIE team. SPIE is therefore the ideal platform for ROBUR and our customers to continue to grow together and to master the growing challenges of leading energy and industrial companies together,” says Müller-Seiler, who, as the future Head of the Industrial Services division and member of the Executive Board of SPIE Deutschland & Zentraleuropa, will lead the division together with the experienced ROBUR management team.
The final closing of the transaction is expected to take place in February 2024 and is only subject to approval by the antitrust authorities.
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