Romonta acquired by IntOCon and StuMaCo

Romonta BV has been acquired by its Belgian sector peers IntOCon and StuMaCo. Less than three months earlier, these leading West Flemish builders of machines and installations for the food industry announced a strategic partnership. With the acquisition of the financially sound Romonta BV, they take a major step into the Dutch market.

“Romonta is a reference in the sector and fits perfectly into our consistent strategy of serving customers optimally, including in their international expansion,” says Lode De Boe, CEO of the group. “Its complementarity with our two West Flemish companies lies, among other things, in the Romonta team’s expertise in designing machines and installations whose modular design makes them suitable for overseas (container) transport. That is essential to serve customers on every continent cost-efficiently and without damage. In addition, this Amsterdam gem broadens our sector specialisation.”

Marco Peters, Operations Director of Romonta BV: “For Romonta, the acquisition brings many growth opportunities. By pooling the specific knowledge of the companies and further developing collaboration within the group, we can serve our customers even better. The acquisition will also create new opportunities for investment in our machine park, making us more flexible and better able to respond to market demand, while delivering the high quality our customers are used to from Romonta.”

Employees of the three companies will each continue to work in their familiar environment. “Project-driven companies sometimes face peaks and troughs in workload. By forming a larger whole, we can better meet the required delivery times. Larger projects also become less risky and easier to handle thanks to the greater engineering capacity and shared expertise. The financial stability of what is now a robust machine-building group also gives customers, suppliers and certainly our financial and banking partners even greater certainty in the collaboration. In today’s challenging and uncertain times, companies choose financially healthy suppliers. Especially in custom machine building, with delivery times of 6 to 9 months, financial robustness is of great importance.”