2024-09-12

Locomotive maintenance strengthens SweMaint’s service offering

SweMaint has a leading role in the Nordics in repair and maintenance services for freight wagons. With our own workshops in twelve locations from Malmö in the south to Kiruna in the north, we meet customers needs at strategic junctions.

In 2023, the parent company Kockums Industrier acquired Midwaggon Ånge, whose focus is to service and maintain locomotives. Thus, maintenance of electric locomotives was also strategically added to SweMaint’s already comprehensive service offer.

On May 1, 2025, SweMaint consolidates the group’s basic idea from 2007 of industrial logic and breadth when Locomotives becomes its own business area and is organizationally added to the company’s existing range, consisting of the areas Wagon Maintenance, Wheel Maintenance, Wheel Pool, Material Supply, 24/7 Salvage and clearance.

The organization is designed to maximize customer benefit and make better use of synergy effects. The overall goal is to broaden and strengthen customer engagement with already existing customers and in the same way approach new ones.

Planned, and to trigger the process, the strategically significant update in the organization takes place in parallel with the premiere of the company’s new business system.

“With a new structure and with Locomotive as our own business area, we further refine our service offering – something that benefits rail freight traffic, its competitiveness and the railway’s future”, explains Peter Overup, CEO SweMaint.

The new organization will come into force on 1 May 2025, but already on 1 October this year, Peter Overup will also become CEO of Midwaggon. Outgoing CEO Lars Björn, who has actually reached retirement age, takes a step back and instead, but quite logically, becomes Key Account Manager, Business Area Locomotive, where his valuable special knowledge and contact areas naturally become a decisive asset.

For further comments please contact:

Björn Widell, CEO Kockums Industrier, tel 0705-39 25 60

Peter Overup, CEO SweMaint, CEO Midwaggon, tel 0705-45 87 24

Pressrelease_SweMaint_LocoM eng.pdf

SweMaint AB is Northern Europe’s leading supplier of maintenance services to wagon owners and other operators of freight transport by rail. Strategically located at the major junctions – from Malmö in the south to Kiruna in the north – they offer a complete and almost nationwide range of services, which includes, among other things, preventive locomotive and wagon maintenance, wheel maintenance, damage remedial repairs and extensive material supply. The company, based in Gothenburg, has a turnover of approximately SEK 600 million and has around 300 employees.

SweMaint AB is Northern Europe’s leading supplier of maintenance and repair services for wagon owners and other rail freight operators. Strategically located at Sweden’s major nodes, from Malmö in the south to Kiruna in the north, we offer a complete and nearly nationwide service offering that includes preventive wagon maintenance, wheel maintenance, corrective repairs and a comprehensive supply of materials.

Our very own wheel supply programme has you got you covered at 30 unique locations – in addition, we have 40 mobile workshops on standby for urgent corrective maintenance out on the rails and effective 24/7 rerailing and clearance. Altogether, this ensures fast lead times according to our motto, “Less downtime = more profit for our customers”.

Our extensive experience – we have been in business since 1905 – combined with our systematic development of our offering with a focus on adding value for customers gives us a unique position and platform to promote rail freight as the strongest and most competitive choice.

Based in Gothenburg, the company boasts sales of around SEK 400 million and has around 250 employees in 12 workshops at Sweden’s major rail nodes. SweMaint AB has been owned by Malmö-based Kockums Industrier since 2007.