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The defence industry in Denmark and the rest of Europe is increasingly demanding complete, integrated and fully tested solutions that can be scaled quickly. This is the background for a strategic collaboration between the production company Mekoprint and the engineering company idoc, which has already led to several joint projects with a total value of a large double-digit million amount.

 

The European defence industry is currently experiencing a historically high demand. This places new demands on suppliers, as capacity, delivery reliability, scalability and time-to-market are increasingly crucial competitive parameters. At the same time, the market is moving away from traditional component deliveries towards more comprehensive solutions, where fewer suppliers take responsibility for a larger part of the value chain. For defence companies, it is about reducing complexity, reducing risk and bringing new solutions faster from development to application:

- The defence industry is increasingly looking for partners who can take responsibility for the entire value chain. Customers want fewer suppliers, shorter development time and the ability to scale quickly when needs change. With the collaboration between idoc and Mekoprint, we can combine development, engineering, documentation, production, integration and testing in one overall solution.

CEO, idoc

Peer Mørk

For a number of years, IDOC has worked with development and engineering tasks for the defence industry and today has more than 100 specialists in the relevant engineering areas. Mekoprint also has a long history as a development and production partner for industrial and defence customers throughout Europe, and together the two partners have 13 locations in Europe with development and production. With the collaboration, the two companies can thus offer the defence industry a complete value chain from the first development activities and prototypes to industrialisation, production, assembly, integration, testing and serial deliveries:

- The great value for customers lies in the fact that we can combine idoc's strong engineering capacity with Mekoprint's industrial production setup. This means that we can jointly enter the development projects earlier, mature the solutions faster and subsequently scale production in line with customer needs. It gives defense companies a more robust and efficient path from idea to finished solution, and it can significantly reduce development and industrialization time and thus shorten the path from idea to finished solution, says Anders Kold, CEO of Mekoprint.

At the same time, the collaboration will meet an increasing demand for both development and production to be anchored closer to customers in Europe. For many defence companies, resilient European supply chains have become an important competitive parameter because security, security of supply and capacity have become more strategically important:

 

- When the defence industry needs to scale, it is no longer enough to have a good idea or a single strong technology. This requires a setup where development, documentation and production are closely linked, and where there is capacity to grow with the task. This is exactly the capacity we can now bring into play, Peer Mørk continues.

 

The collaboration has already produced concrete results

Mekoprint and idoc are already working on several joint development and production projects for the defence industry. Since the beginning of the year, the collaboration has led to several assignments with a total value of a larger double-digit million amount:

 

- We find that customers are very concerned with finding partners who can both take responsibility early in the development phase and at the same time have the strength to deliver when the solutions are to be put into production. This fits exactly with the direction in which we have developed Mekoprint over several years, where we increasingly help customers with total solutions rather than individual components. The collaboration with idoc opens up new opportunities in both Denmark, the rest of Europe and in the long term also more broadly internationally, says Anders Kold.

 

He adds that both companies have made a larger setup for the DALO fair, where capacity, security of supply and European value chains are expected to be among the central themes for the defence industry.

Anders Kold
CEO
+45 2088 8820
ak@mekoprint.com

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