Sepro begins direct sales and service to support injection molders in Switzerland

22-Feb-17

Coming off its fourth record sales year in a row, Sepro Group is once again expanding. The robot and automation leader, headquartered in La Roche sur Yon, France, is establishing a new, direct sales and service operation to serve the plastics injection-molding industry of Switzerland.
Sepro Switzerland will have an office east of Zurich, where Thomas Scherz has been hired as Swiss German Area Sales Manager. In recognition of Switzerland’s tri-lingual character, however, the area sales manager for the French-speaking western region of the country will be Olivier Violy, a 25-year Sepro employee who also covers southeastern France. Customers in the Italian-speaking southeast of Switzerland will continue to work with Sepro’s Italian distributor, Sverital SpA.

This is the third daughter company or local office that Sepro has inaugurated in just over a year and the eleventh in all. Sepro Canada opened in January 2016 and Sepro Austria-Hungary started up in March. This continued global expansion, along with aggressive expansion of its product line and technology base, has helped Sepro to quadruple its turnover since the depths of the Financial Crisis in 2009. The company expects to report 2016 sales of about EUR 103 million, an increase of 11% over 2015. “Since we began establishing a local presence in important global markets, we have seen our market share in these countries grow,” Jean-Michel Renaudeau, CEO of Sepro Group, explains. “We have learned how important it is to be local in the regions we serve. Several of our key customers have operations in Switzerland and so it only makes sense to position ourselves close to them and offer truly local sales and service.”