{"id":24174,"date":"2022-01-18T09:57:19","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T07:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.couth.com\/couth-leaps-into-industry-4-0-with-the-purchase-of-the-barcelonian-company-e2m-specialised-in-computer-vision-systems-for-quality-control\/"},"modified":"2022-02-09T11:45:39","modified_gmt":"2022-02-09T09:45:39","slug":"e2m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.couth.com\/en\/e2m\/","title":{"rendered":"COUTH leaps into Industry 4.0 with the purchase of the Barcelonian company E2M, specialised in computer vision systems for quality control"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>In concluding this transaction last week, COUTH, a company located in Hernani and specialised in industrial traceability and marking, present in 66 countries, has reached around one hundred individuals on staff. The group&#8217;s predicted invoicing for 2022 is 20 million euros.<\/b><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>This transaction allows COUTH to increase the integrated solutions it offers to improve production processes in sectors like the automobile, aeronautics, oil and gas, beverages, food, and pharmaceutical industries.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Hernani, 11 January 2022.- <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The industrial group <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.couth.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">COUTH<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a leader in industrial traceability and marking located in Hernani, has just concluded the purchase of the Catalonian company <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/e2m.es\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">E2M<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, specialised in designing and manufacturing industrial process sensing systems with computer vision.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For Jos\u00e9 Antonio Erdozia, CEO of COUTH, this step confirms that: &#8220;<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We are moving forward with our strategic expansion plan that we began in 2016, creating an industrial group that is growing in fields of high added value and with a future. Adding E2M means we can join the market for development of smart systems and solutions to improve the efficiency of production processes.&#8221;<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;A strategic plan,&#8221; highlights Jos\u00e9 Antonio Erdozia, &#8220;<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">based on strengthening COUTH&#8217;S relevance and its <\/span><\/i><b><i>international position in industrial traceability with percussion and laser technologies, as well as establishing our own subsidiaries in countries such as Germany, Mexico, and China<\/i><\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.&#8221;<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With this transaction, COUTH is moving forward in its expansion plan into fields of high added value and with a future. It has now gone from 61 people on staff to <\/span><b>around one hundred employees, with predicted invoicing of 20 million euros in 2022.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">E2M is a company that was founded in Barcelona in 1993. It is specialised in designing, manufacturing, and maintaining <\/span><b>computer vision systems and devices for 100% quality control over production on serial manufacturing lines.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0 A leader in computer vision systems in the beverage, food, and pharmaceutical sectors, the company currently exports 60% of its manufacture, and is present in over 40 different countries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With E2M joining COUTH, the group will be able to strengthen its line of high added-value solutions intended to improve the efficiency of production processes, combining cutting-edge industrial traceability systems with computer vision sensors and development of artificial intelligence systems with data analytics and deep learning.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Moreover, this transaction <\/span><b>increases and diversifies the industrial group from Guipuzcoa&#8217;s activity, offering integrated solutions in sectors like the food, beverage, and pharmaceutical industries<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, in addition to the current sectors they already work in, like the automobile, aeronautical, rail, oil and gas industries, and more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>COUTH, which began its activity in 1954, is specialised industrial traceability and marking. It is present in 66 countries, to which it exports 84% of its invoicing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In concluding this transaction last week, COUTH, a company located in Hernani and specialised in industrial traceability and marking, present in 66 countries, has reached around one hundred individuals on staff. The group&#8217;s predicted invoicing for 2022 is 20 million euros. 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