PRESS RELEASE IMMEDIATE RELEASE Falkenberg Sweden, September 2008 Makron Engineering signs strategic cooperation agreement with Randek BauTech Makron Engineering signs strategic cooperation agreement with Randek BauTech. Makron Engineering will distribute automated house production lines from Randek BauTech. The two companies have a past as competitors but will in the future cooperate. “We are glad and exciting to start the cooperation with Randek BauTech. It was a natural step for us to be able to offer our customers high-tech fully automated solutions for industrialized house production. Randek BauTech is one of the market leaders in this business segment. Our existing customer base is well suited for the cooperation and our combined product offer will meet their demand well”, says Markku Vilenius CEO of Makron Engineering. “Makron Engineering is a high skilled company and the fact that they have chosen us to cooperate with proves the high technology level of our products. The cooperation will enable us to sell to new markets and to cover the existing ones better”, says Lars-Erik Andersson CEO of Randek Bautech. About Randek BauTech Develops, produces and sells equipment and services for industrialized house production. The product range stretches from fully automated and CAD/CAM controlled production lines for walls, floors and roofs to stand alone machines. Randek BauTech has customers in 30 countries and has been in the business for over 60 years. The company is based in Sweden. www.randek-bautech.com About Makroon Engineering Develops and produces equipment for log house production and modern solutions for production of cellulose fibre insulation. Makron Engineering has delivered equipment to the building industry for over 30 years and is well known globally. The company is based in Finland. www.makron.fi Markku Vilenius CEO, Makron Engineering Tel: +358 400 864188 Email:
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