# TRELLEBORG B

Summary updated: 2026-03-20T05:19:02.268732Z
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## Overview

Trelleborg AB is a Sweden-based industrial group that develops engineered polymer solutions for critical applications in demanding environments, drawing on materials technology expertise and application-specific customer knowledge.[1](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P-b20750fb5d704282a858a748e791bdbd)[2](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P-4ac9f81734f04935bb3068f617a2b115) Its purpose is summarized as “protecting the essential” in society, including people, the environment, infrastructure and industrial equipment.[3](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P-e46fa0ee140940e6a2216b75559c8295) The company is organized around three core business areas: Sealing Solutions, which supplies polymer-based seals and components for sectors such as aerospace, automotive and diversified industrials; Industrial Solutions, which provides polymer-based solutions for selected industrial applications and infrastructure projects; and Medical Solutions, which supplies integrated polymer-based solutions for medical and life science applications.[4](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P-9ad49b226ad241b28046b5888030408d)[5](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P-8725cb126128439fa76b779bc7502584)[6](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P-28e89c2c19db402b9c6828f4e0da9c3c)

Trelleborg combines global capabilities with a local operating presence.[7](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P-c5044ced9b384b199fc5f340cf97e20e) It has operations in more than 40 countries, approximately 100 manufacturing sites, and sales to just over 140 countries.[8](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P-dc2eaa93e99f4420bb4337bc55ae8977) Its footprint is centered on Europe, North and South America, and Asia, and its 2024 sales mix was 45% Europe, 32% North and South America, and 23% Asia and the rest of the world.[9](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P-4dbdace4751c41fabda0a5211ba9e0e6)[10](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P-195b4d338d3e4200b976dbeb2cb8f5f9) For 2024, Trelleborg reported net sales of SEK 34,170 million and 16,782 employees, indicating a sizeable global industrial platform.[11](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T-e7dedd1356fd499bb8ff048a9a59c994)[12](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P-97d923adf066476b9806eb46a962a21e)
[1](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P-b20750fb5d704282a858a748e791bdbd)[2](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P-4ac9f81734f04935bb3068f617a2b115)[3](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P-e46fa0ee140940e6a2216b75559c8295)[4](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P-9ad49b226ad241b28046b5888030408d)[5](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P-8725cb126128439fa76b779bc7502584)[6](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P-28e89c2c19db402b9c6828f4e0da9c3c)[7](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P-c5044ced9b384b199fc5f340cf97e20e)[8](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P-dc2eaa93e99f4420bb4337bc55ae8977)[9](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P-4dbdace4751c41fabda0a5211ba9e0e6)[10](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P-195b4d338d3e4200b976dbeb2cb8f5f9)[11](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T-e7dedd1356fd499bb8ff048a9a59c994)[12](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P-97d923adf066476b9806eb46a962a21e)

## Products & services

Trelleborg’s current products are concentrated in polymer-based sealing systems and industrial polymer solutions. In sealing, it sells critical seals and related components under brands including American Variseal®, Busak+Shamban, Forsheda®, Orkot®, Polypac®, Quad®, Quad-Ring®, Stefa® and Wills Rings®, serving aerospace, automotive and diversified industrial applications.[13](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P-4f47c11c488b4c24989de095345bc53d)[4](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P-9ad49b226ad241b28046b5888030408d) The company states that this portfolio holds a top-three position in sealing solutions for industrial applications, semiconductor-manufacturing equipment, and food, beverage and water equipment, and leading positions in critical aerospace seals and components.[14](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P-98efe8ed0aae40c3af8c4a3fbd2f7eba)[15](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P-42c31d17c3984ef185df3f46e7bd4980) Specific capability examples include aircraft landing-gear seals designed to withstand up to 25,000 landings and Stefa® radial shaft seals launched with a claimed 20% reduction in energy consumption in customer applications.[16](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P-e7bb5e78a5e8490eaa59fd8469d773b0)[17](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P-2422d05abc8748b58a8010d8e4137e96)

Its industrial product lines include sealing profiles, automotive boots, engineered coated fabrics, LNG transfer systems, industrial hoses, pipe seals, antivibration components, and marine infrastructure systems.[18](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P-eb3eb1e64b8048c7af79b0f06e016cc4)[19](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P-a0fd2bd0c805476eb13e98bb05c03c05) Named products and brands include AutoMoor, SmartPort, SCN Super Cone Fenders, SeaGuard, Sealine®, Gall Thomson, Gutteling, HALL, Flexxcurve, FluoroSeal®, Kledam®, Metalastik®, Trellvac and Trilobe, while Dartex® and Fairprene® are part of its engineered coated-fabrics offering.[20](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P-b701f699a18c4a39ae5660c6f871dd43)[18](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P-eb3eb1e64b8048c7af79b0f06e016cc4) The marine offering also includes software and digital services: Trelleborg describes software combined with berthing and mooring systems to create smarter, more automated ports, and an increasingly digital marine offering that provides real-time insights to improve efficiency and safety in demanding operations.[21](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P-2752a3c439fb4d95894a8028e169de59)[22](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P-f2781f63e6b242fba189024bc24f950b)

Where product exposure is quantified, Industrial Solutions’ sales mix was 85% diversified industrials, 8% automotive, 2% healthcare & medical and 5% aerospace, while Sealing Solutions’ mix was 53% diversified industrials, 28% automotive and 19% aerospace.[23](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P-04a5c0c3eef94c4f80fd1d3d852fd63e) Based on 2024 external net sales, Industrial Solutions represented about 44% of group sales and Sealing Solutions about 47%.[24](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T-16d28a7e2d9440dfb6ff7bf2406922a0) Tire and wheel products were part of the former Wheel Systems business, which was divested in 2023.[25](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P-174992034fee4802872561f6c8a54d2c)
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## Geographic presence

Trelleborg is headquartered in Trelleborg, Sweden, and has a broad international footprint with operations in some 40 countries, manufacturing at about 100 production sites, and sales to customers in just over 140 countries worldwide [2](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P-4ac9f81734f04935bb3068f617a2b115)[26](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P-dbaabdc6db844b76aaced664437d8090).

Its sales are weighted toward Europe and the Americas. In 2024, Europe accounted for 44% of sales, North and South America for 33%, and Asia plus the rest of the world for 23%, on total annual sales of approximately SEK 34 billion [27](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P-05e1fc7227724f3597b22536e2d9df78)[28](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P-1994b599ed274d1cbc70fe667574a498).

The employee base is also geographically diversified, with 8,282 employees in Europe, 3,998 in North and South America, and 3,615 in Asia and the rest of the world, for a total of 15,895 [29](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T-7e996ddcf1644498ab5565ba28e934da). Among the largest individual country workforces disclosed were the United States with 3,185 employees, China with 1,680, Germany with 1,227, and Sweden with 911 [30](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P-fa309f95a49d4a85af0a8453834da73a).
[2](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P-4ac9f81734f04935bb3068f617a2b115)[26](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P-dbaabdc6db844b76aaced664437d8090)[27](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P-05e1fc7227724f3597b22536e2d9df78)[28](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P-1994b599ed274d1cbc70fe667574a498)[29](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T-7e996ddcf1644498ab5565ba28e934da)[30](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P-fa309f95a49d4a85af0a8453834da73a)

## Business segments

Trelleborg’s current segment reporting is organized around three business areas that function as its operating segments: Trelleborg Industrial Solutions, Trelleborg Medical Solutions, and Trelleborg Sealing Solutions.[31](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P-a637e0c236d64e1c99ad16bb05cf4249)[32](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P-602784482ece4ea5a7d9c838825b256b) Industrial Solutions focuses on polymer-based critical solutions for selected industrial applications and infrastructure projects; Medical Solutions focuses on polymer-based integrated solutions for medical and life science; and Sealing Solutions focuses on polymer-based critical sealing solutions and components used in aerospace, automotive and diversified industrials.[32](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P-602784482ece4ea5a7d9c838825b256b)

Using 2024 business-area net sales before intersegment eliminations, Sealing Solutions was the largest segment at about 48% of combined business-area sales (SEK 16,670m), Industrial Solutions accounted for about 44% (SEK 15,317m), and Medical Solutions accounted for about 9% (SEK 3,003m).[33](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P-2f52473dc2904895a77b67b129f5f052)[34](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T-a99222f14f414a42b9c213345d3111d9) Trelleborg also has a recent change in segmentation: the company states that Medical Solutions was created as a new business area in April 2024, carved out of the healthcare & medical operations previously included within Sealing Solutions.[35](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P-a4b1649b90564641a1f2101d7cd08993)[36](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P-45170da8db4844adbdc89a80c4e5c23e) In the prior structure disclosed for 2023, Trelleborg reported two main business areas—Industrial Solutions and Sealing Solutions—with Sealing Solutions explicitly including healthcare & medical; on that basis, Sealing Solutions represented about 55% of combined business-area sales and Industrial Solutions about 45%.[37](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P-14b20c10ba144a78ab2126c2f096db5f)[38](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P-9730e9d8dc704ef08f9634ec2cdde116)[39](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T-3d84464d0e154cc7ad32b48db3e4c7f9)
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## Company history

Production began in Trelleborg in 1896, and in 1905 Henry Dunker and Johan Kock founded Trelleborgs Gummifabriks AB, establishing the business that grew from a local rubber producer into a broader industrial company [40](https://www.trelleborg.com/en/about-us/history)[41](https://www.trelleborg.com/en/about-us/120-year-anniversary). A major phase of internationalization started in the 1950s; Trelleborg notes that only 4% of sales were outside Sweden in 1950, with overseas expansion accelerating over the following decades [40](https://www.trelleborg.com/en/about-us/history). The company’s shares have been listed since 1964 [12](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P-97d923adf066476b9806eb46a962a21e).

During the 1990s, Trelleborg reshaped its portfolio through a mix of divestments and targeted acquisitions, including the purchase of roofing company Trebolit in 1998 and sealing-profile producer DiPro Dichtungssysteme in 1999 [42](https://www.trelleborg.com/en/media/mfnnews/1998/trelleborg-acquires-trebolit)[43](https://www.trelleborg.com/media/mfnnews/1999/trelleborg-expands-within-sealing-profiles)[44](https://www.trelleborg.com/media/mfnnews/1999/nine-month-report-january-september-1999). In 2003, it agreed to acquire Smiths Group’s polymer-based precision seals business, a major step in expanding its engineered polymer and sealing operations [45](https://www.trelleborg.com/en/media/mfnnews/2003/trelleborg-acquires-precision-seal-business-from-smiths-of-uk/). In 2012, Trelleborg and Freudenberg completed the formation of the 50/50 antivibration joint venture TrelleborgVibracoustic [46](https://www.trelleborg.com/en/media/mfnnews/2012/trelleborg-slutf%C3%B6r-aff%C3%A4ren-av-det-sam%C3%A4gda-bolaget-inom-antivibration). More recently, another major portfolio change came in 2023 when Trelleborg completed the divestment of Trelleborg Wheel Systems, continuing the long-running restructuring of the group around more focused industrial niches [47](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P-d2360321b05c493492590ae1630e6734).
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