The Swedish industrial group KB Components acquires QFC Plastics Inc. in Arlington, Texas, USA. KB Components acquires QFC Plastics Inc, USA and integrate the company into its North American injection molding business. QFC Plastics has a turnover of approximately 13 million USD and has built up a manufacturing unit for the production of advanced components in a machine park up to the size of...

 The Swedish industrial group KB Components acquires Lakeside Plastics in Windsor, Canada. The acquisition is done as an asset deal and the operations will from 1th of November 2021 be run through KB Components Canada Inc.   Lakeside Plastics Limited has a turnover of 25 million CAD entailing a production operation of...

The Swedish industrial group KB Components will open a second site in Mexico. The site will be located in Irapuato in the State of Guanajuato, the second largest automotive cluster in Mexico and will serve both Industrial and Automotive customers with injection moulding of plastic components and assembly operations.  – The investment in Irapuato is needed to meet the demand from a growing...

In yet another step in the development of its production unit in Örkelljunga, KB Components is welcoming a new employee – a two-armed robot that can perform repetitive tasks together with a real person.  KB Components has always been at the forefront when it comes to using new technology. Now, the company is taking yet another step in the automation of assembly tasks that require interaction...

The Swedish industrial group KB Components has entered an agreement with CTPark to construct a 16.000 m2 new production site in Zilina, Slovakia in order to expand its central European operations. The site will be located next to the KIA Automotive plant in Zilina and will serve both Medical, Lighting, Industrial and Automotive customers with injection moulding of plastic components, extrusion...

In autumn 2020, KB Components in Örkelljunga will be covering large portions of its roof, as well as an extensive ground area, with solar panels. The installation area will total 5,750 square metres and include 1,450 panels, which will begin operating in the autumn. “This will not only benefit the environment, it’s also a profitable investment for us because we will be using the energy for our...

Manually fitting pallet collars onto wooden pallets is a strenuous, labour-intensive job. When KB Components in Örkelljunga decided to install automatic equipment for constructing pallets, they were faced with a major challenge because no ready-to-use systems were available. Many enquiries were sent out to automation companies both in Sweden and abroad, but none of them had a good solution. As...

To strengthen our capabilities to provide fast and accurate measurement services to our customers, KB Components UAB in Kaunas have opened a new measurement center. The center is equipped with a CMM measurement machine, using the same software as the other measurement centers within the group in order to facilitate global co-operation, and modern surface roughness measuring device. KB Components...

KB Components acquires Placell AB in Gislaved, Sweden and will integrate the operations in its European Injection Molding business. As per today, after completion of the acquisition the company will be renamed to KB Components Placell AB.  Placell AB has a turnover of 12 MEuro entailing a highly automated production operation of plastic components with gross weight up to 2,5 kg. The company...

Today, the three hundred square meter visitor center was opened at KB Component’s headquarter in Örkelljunga. This area presents the 7 different business areas, tells the over 70-year story, talks about the environment and the future. Conspicuous is a car, a Volvo XC60, centrally placed at the area where KB manufactures a variety of components. The visit center are designed and built by Infuse...

KB Components is working to secure operational excellence in all sites by creating a global structure for continous improvements and structure for ”Best Practise Sharing”. To do this they use the tool LDA (Lean Deployment Assessment) developed by Volvo Cars.  The purpose is to to standardize its factories with higher efficiency and quality. Improvement General for the project is Elvis...

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Development and innovation are two important parts of KB Components and they are constantly involved in a number of different research projects in order to keep the company in focus in new technology. One of these projects is DIP (Digital twin for development and installation of production systems) and is part of Vinnova's focus on keeping Swedish industry at the...

Kautex, a global first tier supplier to the automotive industry, has awarded KB Components the Supplier of the Year award 2019 for out-standing partnership in supporting Kautex’ global foot-print. KB Components is supplying Kautex from three plants (Canada, China and Mexico). The recent acquisition of the plant in Canada was done in close discussion with Kautex, who is a major customer there....