Merry Christmas & Happy New Year

What a challenging year 2022 has been!

Although steep price increases for everything from cardboard boxes to plastic resins we feel a strong support and understanding from our customers and are thrilled to move into 2023.  

Everyone at IV Frohe Sweden AB would like to extend a big THANK YOU to all customers, partners, suppliers and everyone else that we have been in contact with throughout 2022!

Happy Holidays! Thank you for all your support and guidance this year. Best wishes for a healthy, happy, and peaceful New Year.

//the Frohe Team

NEW MANAGING DIRECTOR AT IV FROHE SWEDEN

Michaela Runeberg is appointed as new Managing Director at IV Frohe Sweden.

Michaela has been working in the company for more than 10 years and has been the HR Manager since 2015. Among many things, she has been responsible for environmental questions (both external & internal) as well as change management including implementing lean production methodologies.

Michaela has been part of the management team since 2016.

“I am passionate about management, developing the organization and continuous improvements. My focus on policy deployment & HR management together with my good and deep knowledge about the company, I look forward to continue the ongoing development activities to create a good and sustainable work place and company which will benefit customers, employees and suppliers” says Michaela Runeberg.

“With Michaela’s long experience at Frohe, her knowledge in vital areas such as policy deployment and HR, together with her drive to always develop & improve, I am confident she will succeed in her assignment as managing director at IV Frohe Sweden” says Magnus Emeus, CEO at IV Group.

Produktionslyftets 18-månadersprogram

Vi är mycket stolta över att i oktober ha slutfört produktionslyftets 18 månaders-program! 

 “Produktionslyftet är ett omfattande nationellt program som initierades av Teknikföretagen och IF Metall 2006. Syftet är att höja produktivitet, konkurrenskraft och utvecklingsförmåga i svensk industri och därigenom stärka förutsättningarna för lönsam produktion i Sverige. Produktionslyftet tillämpar väl utprovad process som har utvecklats sedan 2007 och ständigt förbättras. Processen bygger på principer som kopplar till Lean* men tar utgångspunkt i de utmaningar och ambitioner som är viktigast i det enskilda företaget. En förutsättning för framgång är också en beredskap till omprövning och eget hårt arbete i respektive företag.”

 Vi ser fram emot att fortsätta arbetet med att implementera och sprida ett Lean-anpassat arbetssätt på alla avdelningar i företaget och att fortsätta jobba mot en kultur som ännu mer kännetecknas av delaktighet, engagemang och långsiktighet.

*Lean är en ideologi som går ut på att maximera kundnyttan och samtidigt minimera slöseriet av resurser genom olika typer av effektiviseringar och rationaliseringar.

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IV Group acquires Swedish-based Frohe Group

IV Group has completed the acquisition of the Swedish-based Frohe Group. The company was established in 1991 and is today mainly operating in the Medical- & Industrial sector. The acquisition means IV Group is adding Medical to its portfolio as well as expanding geographically with manufacturing sites added both in Sweden and in Poland.

“Acquisitions are an important ingredient in IV Groups growth strategy. We have been looking at strengthening our position at our home market in Scandinavia as well as expanding in Central Europe. Frohe Group is ticking both these boxes by having manufacturing in Tyresö outside Stockholm as well as in Wroclaw in south-west of Poland.

The site in Sweden is mainly operating in the Medical sector where they have a strong position at several customers. The site in Poland offer us significant customer synergies with our current customer base as well open up many new business opportunities in the important Central European market. On top of this we enter the very interesting Medical segment which is an area we will try to expand further,” said IV Group CEO Magnus Emeus

Frohe Group was founded 1991 and has from the beginning attracted interest from customers thanks to their innovative mind-set & technical skills within the injection moulding industry. The company’s products are mainly used in medical devices but also in the food processing industry as well as various industrial applications.

“Frohe Group has recently been awarded several big projects and when now being stronger together with IV Group, we will be able to further develop and fulfill our customers expectations even better. Through IV Group we will also get a footprint in China which is important for us as we already have customers there. Local presence gives us the opportunity to better serve our customers which will increase the possibilities for further growth,” says Frohe Groups CEO Mårten Samuelsson.

Frohe Group has been a family owned company since it started 30 years ago. They have a broad customer base where many of the customer relations are more than 10 years old which means the partnerships are strategic, solid and long term. The current management have also been with Frohe Group for many years and will stay in the company.

“Long term and strategic relationships, with both customers and employees, obviously says a lot about Frohe Group. By taking good care of both customers and employees, relations tend to be solid and last for a long time. Our intentions are to further strengthen and develop these relations and together with us at IV Group enable additional growth through capitalizing on the market synergies at hand,” said IV Group CEO Magnus Emeus “.    

For further information, please contact;

Magnus Emeus, CEO, +46 701 477468

IV Group is a Norwegian group with operations in Asia and Europe. We develop and manufacture products in polymer materials for customers within medical technology, consumer products, automotive and other selected industrial sectors. We also manufacture tools for the injection moulding industry as well as machining services. Main owners of IV Group is Verdane Capital and IV Holding where Verdane Capital is the majority owner.

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Frohe Group is a proud partner of the FibRe competence center

Frohe Group is an industrial partner of FibRe, which is a Vinnova supported competence center with two academic partners, Chalmers Univeristy of Technolog and KTH Royal Institute of Technology, together with twenty industrial and public organizations.

The following comes from Chalmers FibRe web page where you can read more about this exciting project:

“The FibRe vision is to enable the transition from fossil-based thermoplastics to fully bio-based counterparts, produced in a circular, scalable and sustainable way.

Our goal is to establish a strong research and innovation environment, jointly between academia and industry, enabling the use of lignocellulose as a raw material to create functionalized, recyclable and degradable thermoplastics. This will involve the entire supply chain and contribute to a reduction of human contributed carbon emissions, and – within 10 years – provide substantial steps towards increased resource-efficiency and a circular economy to reach the societal goals of reduction of resource use and pollution along the material life cycle.”

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Sommar 2020

Frohe vill önska alla en riktigt skön sommar och en härlig semesterperiod och samtidigt passa på att informera om reducerad kapacitet under denna tid.

Vi har helt stängt vecka 29-30 (13-26/7), projektkontoret håller stängt vecka 28-31 och vi kommer att arbeta med reducerad kapacitet i produktionen veckorna 27-28 & 31-32.

Vi ser fram emot hösten med flera nya spännande projekt på ingång, nya anställda att hälsa välkomna samt våra sista träffar med våra Lean-coacher från Produktionslyftet som vi har jobbat med sedan hösten 2018.

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NENT Group erbjuder 3 månaders gratisabonnemang på Viaplay för Frohes anställda

Ett stort tack till NENT Group som uppmärksammar Frohes anställda som ”coronahjältar” genom att erbjuda 3 månader gratis Viaplay streamingtjänst.

Frohe ansökte om erbjudandet från NENT Group som beskriver projektet så här:

” Spridningen av viruset innebär omfattande begränsningar för många människor samtidigt som det finns så många hjältar som hjälper till genom att hjälpa andra som påverkas av viruset under dessa svåra tider. Vi vill uppmärksamma båda dessa grupper på vårt sätt genom att erbjuda dem ett specialerbjudande på Viaplay-abonnemang.”

En stor andel av Frohes produktion riktar sig mot andningshjälpmedel som delar till respiratorer, anestesi- och intubationsutrustning.

Under pågående kris har ett företagsbeslut tagits om att prioritera produktionen av dessa produkter som är helt nödvändiga för behandling av svårt sjuka coronapatienter.

Detta har bland annat inneburit:

• Personal har ställt upp och jobbat både lördagar och söndagar.

• flera nya montörer har anställts på visstidskontrakt för att täcka upp för viss sjukfrånvaro och ökad orderingång.

• Dagliga utmaningar att få ingående komponenter levererade från andra länder som Italien, Kina och USA

. • Hårt arbete med omplanering för att de prioriterade produktionslinorna skall fungera optimalt.

Frohe är otroligt stolta för det enorma engagemang och, i vissa fall, personliga uppoffringar som personalen bidrar med.

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