GROUP (ENG) CONTACT US Home Your Industry Our Solutions Accelerate Performance Investors Media Career About Us Home Investors Business Areas Trelleborg Coated Systems Unique polymer solutions for coated fabrics Trelleborg Coated Systems is a leading global supplier of unique customer solutions for polymercoated fabrics deployed in several industrial applications. Market segments Trelleborg Coated Systems comprises four market segments: General industry: Printing and coating plate solutions for all types of offset printing, as well as flexo and digital printing. Carrier sleeve product line for packaging flexo printing. Coated fabrics and calendared materials for multiple industrial applications. Transportation equipment: Coated fabrics for rubber flooring and train bellows, among other applications. Aerospace: Coated fabrics for use in, for example, cabins, interior panels and aircraft evacuation slides, in addition to bellows for passenger boarding bridges. Light vehicles: Calendared materials for brake shims, for example. Current priorities Focus on multi-dimensional organic growth: in geographies and segments, or through innovation, customer integration and differentiation. Focus on product and process innovations. Optimize existing manufacturing, logistical and geographic presence, as well as the go-to-market model. Seek selected bolt-on acquisitions. Examples of brands/product names: Axcyl®, Printec, Rollin® and Vulcan®. Production units: Brazil, China, France, Italy, Sweden, the U.K. and the U.S. Market offices: Austria, Brazil, China, France, Italy, Japan, Sweden, the U.K. and the U.S. 3 questions Dario Porta, Business Area President. Describe what characterizes your business area. The development and production of polymer-coated fabrics requires expertise and applications know-how in polymer engineering. From these polymer-coated fabrics, we make blankets for all types of printing and our fabrics form part of a large number of products, from medical technology equipment to train bellows. A common feature of our offerings is their high technological content and the critical role they have in overall solution. With the acquisition of the U.S. coated fabrics operations in 2014, our relative distribution of sales between printing blanket solutions and coated fabrics has changed in favor of the latter. Our focus has also shifted from Europe to North and South America. In relative terms, we are also allocating more resources to sales and R&D than we did a few years ago. Name a technological highlight of the year. There are numerous development projects ongoing in the business area, but one highlight I would like to mention is our successful deployment of fabrics joined using a drop-stitch technique and subsequently rubber-coated. The technique enables the product to be inflated – similar to an air mattress. There are several areas of application, but the product comes into its own when used in the bottom structure of a boat or raft. What will be the key development areas in the years ahead? Despite our presence in a large number of niches, development and expansion potential exists in other segments, niches and geographies – particularly for our polyurethane-coated fabrics. Packaging, and therefore printing blankets for packaging, represent an area in which we are growing. We are also continuing to review our distribution network and are examining closely related technologies. The global megatrends are encouraging. For example, the aerospace industry is demanding lighter aircraft fleets and enhanced safety, which are trends that fit our already strong position in the sector. Employees per geographic market Net sales per geographic market Net sales per segment Key figures Head Office Trelleborg Coated Systems Head Office Trelleborg Coated Systems IT-268 55 Lodi Vecchio Italy Strada Provinciale 140 tel: +39 037 140 61 Show on map coated.systems@trelleborg.com Business area websites Flexible Containment Solutions Engineered Coated Fabrics Printing Solutions Rubber Flooring © Trelleborg AB (publ), Johan Kocksgatan 10, P.O. Box 153, SE-231 22 Trelleborg, tel: +46 410 670 00 Cookie policy We use cookies to provide you with a better service. Carry on browsing if you're happy with this, or find out how to manage cookies. OK