Bekaert

NV Bekaert SA provides steel wire transformation and coating technologies worldwide. The company offers filter and fiber media products; heating cables and cords; various wires, cords, and strands; control cables; springs for locks and brakes; power springs; stainless steel fiber products; reinforcing canvas for trailers; coatings; and off the road tire and rubber track reinforcement products. It also provides measuring devices for on-site quality control; steel fibers for concrete reinforcement, industrial floors, residential applications, mining industry, civil works, and precast elements; automatic dosing equipment; masonry reinforcement and plastering products; nails, stitches, and galvanized staples; and welded mesh products. In addition, the company offers steel cord reinforced thermoplastic and rubber tapes; reinforcement products for sprinkler hoses; Hexanet, oyster breeding, fencing, Electrix cor, and inkjet filtration products; valves; anti-static, conductive, and EMI shielding fiber products; and heat resistant materials. Further, it engages in the provision of woven steel cord cores; special belt reinforcement and drying solutions; sandless spinpack and coalescing media products; underground mining high performance products; wicking materials; and burners and boilers, as well as in engineering activities. The company serves automotive, construction, energy and utility, agriculture, consumer goods, basic materials, and equipment industries. NV Bekaert SA was founded in 1880 and is headquartered in Zwevegem, Belgium.

Katelijn Bohez

Chief Communications and Investor Relations Officer

Christine Clarysse

Investor Relations coordinator

Joeri Goethals

Investor Relations Manager and Finance Project Manager

Noël Paesen

VP, Corporate Strategy, Portfolio and Venturing

18 past transactions

Cymbet

Series C in 2010
Cymbet develops market eco-friendly, biocompatible rechargeable solid state batteries that provide electronic systems designers with new embedded power capabilities. Cymbet’s EnerChip batteries allow new concepts in energy storage application for ICs and new products for medical, sensor, RFID, industrial control, communications, and portable electronic devices. Their new single chip Power Management Real-Time Clock (PMRTC) device is a world class device and among the lowest power RTCs in the industry.

Innovative Specialty Films

Acquisition in 2001
Innovative Specialty Films is a privately held company specializes in manufacturing, marketing and developing highly specialized thin films applied onto flexible polymeric substrates.

Southwest Screens & Filters

Acquisition in 2005
Southwest Screens & Filters is a designer and manufacturer metal filters and systems. The company employs 125 people and is one of the world players in metal fibre based industrial process filters. These filters are used mainly in the polymer industry for filtering possible impurities out of the molten raw material during the production process, to ensure the good quality of the synthetic fibre or film.

SAGE Electrochromics

Series B in 2007
SAGE Electrochromics, Inc. engages in the manufacture and sale of insulating glass units and control systems to window and skylight manufacturers in the residential marketplace. The company also provides windows, skylights, and curtain walls for commercial and institutional buildings. It offers its products to owner-occupied office spaces, museums, libraries, art galleries, health care facilities, religious facilities, aviation facilities, high-tech or image buildings, and atriums and overhead daylight openings. SAGE Electrochromics, Inc. was founded in 1989 and is based in Faribault, Minnesota. As of November 10, 2010, SAGE Electrochromics, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Saint-Gobain.

Bekaert Wire Ropes Pty Ltd

Merger/Acquisition in 2015
Bekaert Wire Ropes Pty Ltd manufactures metal wire ropes. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Mayfield East, Australia. As of March 1, 2015, Bekaert Wire Ropes Pty Ltd operates as a subsidiary of NV Bekaert SA.

Joseph Sykes Brothers

Acquisition in 2001
Joseph Sykes Brothers is a privately held manufacturer and producer of card clothing, machinery used in cotton production.
Bekaert Maccaferri Underground Solutions BVBA provides underground construction solutions for tunneling and mining projects. It offers solutions for mechanized tunneling, including portals and shafts; shotcrete and segmental tunnel linings; and accessories for segments, grouting, drainage/dewatering, and waterproofing, as well as shotcrete admixtures, rock bolting, aesthetic accessories, fibers, fires, GFRP reinforcement products, and shotcrete additives for concrete reinforcement, soil reinforcement, and fire resistance applications. The company also provides solutions for conventional tunneling, such as portals, tunneling excavation, temporary support installation, and final lining, as well as admixtures, tunnel support systems, fibers, fires, GFRP reinforcement products, P.E.R. ground systems, shotcrete additives, and macro synthetic fibers. In addition, it offers solutions for mining, such as fibers and shotcrete additives. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Aalst, Belgium.

ECC Card Clothing

Acquisition in 2005
ECC Card Clothing is a privately held metals manufacturing company and supplies card clothing products. The company offers various card clothings and accessories.

iosil Energy

Private Equity Round in 2012
Iosil Energy Corporation produces "high purity polysilicon," the essential raw material for solar cells. The Corporation was founded in 2007, with its R&D facilities located in the National Institute for Nanotechnology In Edmonton, Alberta. The company has demonstrated its ability to produce high-purity solar grade polysilicon from the waste material (or “kerf”) created by wafer sawing operations, saving costs.

Cold Drawn Products

Acquisition in 2006
Cold Drawn Products is a manufacturer and marketer of precision section, flat, and trapezoidal steel wire products in the United Kingdom and internationally.

Aluheat B.V.

Acquisition in 2006
Aluheat B.V. is a privately held company provides condensing boiler technology to manufacturers in the boiler industry.

Uralkord

Acquisition in 2006
Uralkord is a manufacturer and producer of bead wire and steel cord products. It was founded in 2000 and is based in Magnitogorsk, Russian Federation.

Bekaert Southern Wire Pte Ltd

Merger/Acquisition in 2015
Bekaert Southern Wire Pte Ltd manufactures and sells pre-stressed steel strands and wires. The company's products include bedding and seating wire, automotive and industrial wire, wire rope, cable armouring wire, gabion wire, fencing wire, staple wire, and stitching wire. The company caters to the tire manufacturers, welding equipment, cable companies, and oil and gas services companies. The company was formerly known as Southern Wire Industries (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd and changed its name to Bekaert Southern Wire Pte Ltd. in August 2012. The company was founded in 1969 and is based in Shah Alam, Malaysia. Bekaert Southern Wire Pte Ltd operates as a subsidiary of NV Bekaert SA.

Bridon-Bekaert Ropes Group

Merger/Acquisition in 2018
NV Bekaert SA, Global Ropes and Advanced Cords Businesses manufacture steel wires and cords.

Beksa Steel Cord Manufacturing

Acquisition in 2008
Beksa manufactures steel cord products and Dramix metal fibres for a variety of industrial applications, including the tyre and automotive industry. The company employs about 330 people and recorded sales of 80 million euros in 2006.

Delta Wire Corp.

Acquisition in 2006
Delta Wire Corporation, located in Clarksdale (Mississippi), is a major supplier of bead wire for tire reinforcement, as well as of a wide range of specialized wire products for the North American market.

Cymbet

Series B in 2004
Cymbet develops market eco-friendly, biocompatible rechargeable solid state batteries that provide electronic systems designers with new embedded power capabilities. Cymbet’s EnerChip batteries allow new concepts in energy storage application for ICs and new products for medical, sensor, RFID, industrial control, communications, and portable electronic devices. Their new single chip Power Management Real-Time Clock (PMRTC) device is a world class device and among the lowest power RTCs in the industry.

Bekaert Wire Ropes Pty Ltd

Merger/Acquisition in 2015
Bekaert Wire Ropes Pty Ltd manufactures metal wire ropes. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Mayfield East, Australia. As of March 1, 2015, Bekaert Wire Ropes Pty Ltd operates as a subsidiary of NV Bekaert SA.