SKF First Quarter Report 2020: Continuing to Deliver Strong Results and Cash Flow
GOTHENBURG, Sweden, April 23, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Alrik Danielson, President and CEO: "We have delivered another very strong set of results, despite falling demand connected to the Covid-19 pandemic. Our cash flow generation and financial liquidity continues to be strong. We have continued to ...
SKF to Publish First Quarter Results on 23 April
GOTHENBURG, Sweden, April 9, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The SKF Group will publish its first quarter results at approximately 07:00 (CEST) on23 April 2020. As of this quarter, SKF will report adjusted operating profit and operating margin at Group and customer segment level (Industrial and Automotive)....
SKF Announces Changes to Group Management
GOTHENBURG, Sweden, March 27, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Carina Bergfelt, General Counsel and Senior Vice President, Group People, Communication and Legal, will step down from Group Management from31 August 2020. Carina joined SKF in 1990 and has been a member of Group Management since 1996. As a resu...
Annual General Meeting of AB SKF
GOTHENBURG, Sweden, March 26, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The Annual General Meeting of Aktiebolaget SKF, parent company of the SKF Group, was held inGothenburg on Thursday,26 March 2020. The income statements and the balance sheets were adopted, together with the Board's proposal for distribution of d...
SKF Annual Report 2019 Published
GOTEBORG, Sweden, March 4, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- AB SKF's Annual Report 2019 has today been published on the Group's website. The report focuses on SKF's operations and value creation for customers, employees, shareholders, the environment and surrounding communities. Sustainability is embedded i...
Announcement of Change in the Total Number of Votes in AB SKF
GOTHENBURG, Sweden, Feb. 28, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Due to a conversion of shares from Series A to Series B in accordance with AB SKF's Articles of Association, the Company confirms the following. As per 28 February, the Company's share capital amounts to SEK 1,138,377,670 and the total number of ...
SKF Increases Shift Towards Carbon Neutral Manufacturing
GOTHENBURG, Sweden, Feb. 20, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- SKF's automotive bearing factory in Tudela,Spain, has become the Group's second manufacturing site to achieve carbon neutral status. Together with the Steyr factory inAustria, which manufactures a range of bearings for industrial uses, the two fac...
SKF Year-end Report 2019
GOTHENBURG, Sweden, Feb. 4, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Alrik Danielson, President and CEO: "2019 has been a solid year for SKF. We saw stable demand during the first half of the year. During the last six months, we maintained a strong operating result, despite falling demand. A consistent focus on co...
Håkan Buskhe and Susanna Schneeberger Proposed as New Board Members of AB SKF
GOTHENBURG, Sweden, Jan. 31, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- SKF's Nomination Committee proposes Håkan Buskhe andSusanna Schneeberger as new Board members of AB SKF. Håkan Buskhe will assume the role as CEO of FAM AB. His previous senior positions include CEO of E.ON Nordic AB and, most recently, CEO of Sa...
SKF's Year-end Results to be Published on 4 February 2020
GOTHENBURG, Sweden, Jan. 17, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The SKF Group will publish its year-end results on4 February 2020 at approximately 13:00 (CET). Investors, analysts and media are invited to take part in a conference call, which will be held in English, at 14:00 (CET). To join the conference ca...
SKF's Capital Markets Day Will be Held on 4 November 2020
GOTHENBURG, Sweden, Dec. 20, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- In November 2020, SKF will arrange its Capital Markets Day in co-ordination with Sandvik and Volvo Group. The capital markets days will include visits to Sandvik and SKF sites inAustria and to Volvo inGothenburg, Sweden. SKF's Capital Markets Day...
Gerdau and SKF in Agreement to Improve Productivity at Brazilian Steel Mills
GOTHENBURG, Sweden, Dec. 6, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Gerdau and SKF have signed a fee-based agreement aimed at increasing productivity and reducing unplanned downtime at Gerdau's Charqueadas and Araçariguama steel mills inBrazil. The agreement will see SKF provide a full range of products, including...
SKF Acquires Software Development Start-up
GOTHENBURG, Sweden, Nov. 11, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- SKF has completed the acquisition of Form Automation Solutions (FAS), a US-based software development start-up company. FAS has developed GoPlant, a mobile-based asset inspection and data collection solution used in industrial applications. The t...
SKF Issues its First Green Bond
GÖTEBORG, Sweden, Nov. 8, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- SKF has, as one of the first industrial companies, issued a green bond. The bond will raiseEUR 300 million to fund eligible green projects in accordance with SKF's recently launched Green Finance Framework. SKF's green bond has received much attenti...
SKF Completes EUR 255m Buy-back of Bonds Maturing 2020 and 2022, Updates Financial Net
GOTHENBURG, Sweden, Nov. 7, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- SKF has completed the buy-back ofEUR 51 million and EUR 204 million of outstanding bonds maturing in 2020 and 2022 respectively. Financial net for Q4 2019 is now expected to be approximately SEK -360 million , compared to the Group's previous guida...
BillerudKorsnäs and SKF Partner to Improve Performance of Karlsborg Mill
GOTHENBURG, Sweden, Nov. 4, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- BillerudKorsnäs and SKF are partnering to reduce maintenance costs and improve production output and sustainability performance at Karlsborg Mill in Kalix,Sweden. Real-time data from a new system with 480 connected condition monitoring points at ...
Announcement of Change in the Total Number of Votes in AB SKF
GOTHENBURG, Sweden, Oct. 31, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Due to a conversion of shares from Series A to Series B in accordance with AB SKF's Articles of Association, the Company confirms the following. As per 31 October the Company's share capital amounts to SEK 1,138,377,670 and the total number of sh...
SKF Nine-month Report 2019
GOTHENBURG, Sweden, Oct. 22, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Alrik Danielson, President and CEO: "SKF has managed the business well in a weakening economic environment and our efforts to reduce costs are contributing to a strong and stable operating margin in the quarter with an underlying margin of 11.3%....
SKF to Publish Nine-months Results on 22 October
GOTHENBURG, Sweden, Oct. 9, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- SKF will publish its nine-months results for 2019 on22 October 2019 at approximately 13:00 (CET). Investors, analysts and media are invited to join a conference call, which will be held in English, at 14:00 (CET). To join the conference call, ple...
SKF Acquires Industrial AI Company
GOTHENBURG, Sweden, Oct. 8, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- SKF has signed an agreement to acquire Presenso Ltd., a company that develops and deploys artificial intelligence (AI)-based predictive maintenance software. Presenso's AI capability enables production plants to find and act on anomalies that were ...
