Quant is a global leader in industrial maintenance. For over 25 years, we have been realizing the full potential of maintenance for our customers. From embedding superior safety practices and building a true maintenance culture, to optimizing maintenance cost and improving plant performance, our people make the difference. We are passionate about maintenance and proud of ensuring we achieve our customers’ goals in the most professional way.
History
Quant, the global leader in industrial maintenance
Nordic Capital acquired ABB Full Service from the ABB Group at the end of 2014, supporting the creation of a strong independent company within industrial maintenance – Quant. For over 25 years ABB Full Service has been a market leader in this industry, maintaining and improving the safety, production and equipment performance for over 300 facilities around the world. Quant is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, and continues as a leader in the provision of professional industrial maintenance services with a global presence.
Realizing Potential
Maintenance is key to long-term success
Maintenance is more than just a cost to production. It provides the foundation for a business’s performance and profitability, affecting everything from safety to plant productivity and energy efficiency. From designing a new plant, to getting it running and keeping it running optimally, having the right approach to maintenance makes a real difference in both the short and long-term.
The full potential of maintenance is rarely realized
When working with new customers we often find: the total cost of maintenance is not under full control; spare parts and subcontracting costs constantly exceed budgeted levels; the impact of maintenance on the equipment life cycle cannot be quantified; maintenance is conducted in isolation of productivity improvements; and the cost of unplanned shut downs is greater that the total planned maintenance budget.
In a world where increasing regulation, competition and costs put pressure on our customers’ businesses, we constantly ask: Where can maintenance have the greatest impact; how can it contribute to a more prosperous future for our customers, in both the short and long-term?
Providing value-added maintenance
All customers are concerned about rising maintenance costs and many need to improve safety performance. Some want to increase productivity or capacity to seize market opportunities. Others need to improve energy efficiency to reduce operating costs or reduce waste to meet regulatory changes.
When our customers outsource their maintenance management and execution to us we ensure that they achieve both their short and long term goals. We deploy empowered, maintenance-focused people to work as an integrated part of their production teams, using world-class processes and methodologies to improve safety and productivity all while optimizing cost.
To meet our customers’ goals we have a proven process for evaluating the potential we can realize before we start working together. Agreed goals are then continuously reviewed against actual performance. Working under performance-based agreements helps ensure that all investments in maintenance create ‘real’, sustainable business benefits, and that we all share in the value created.
Our unique approach to optimizing maintenance management and execution, with a focus on education, motivation and empowerment, takes our customers’ performance to the next level adding value in both the short and long term.
Improved:
Safety Performance
Employee Motivation
Energy Efficiency
Overall Equipment Effectiveness
Equipment Lifetime
Equipment Availability
Equipment Reliability
Maintenance Productivity
Compliance
Reduced:
Safety Incidents
Operating Cost
Maintenance Cost
Spare Parts Cost
Energy Consumption
Production Losses
Downtime
Emissions
Waste
Realizing the full potential of maintenance
Empowering People
People-driven performance
Maintenance is a people business. From embedding superior safety practices and building a true maintenance culture, to optimizing maintenance cost and improving plant performance, our people make the difference.
A motivated, professional team
We are maintenance professionals – experts at empowering our people to realize the full potential of maintenance for our customers. We take pride in managing and executing maintenance and believe that a motivated, empowered and skilled team of dedicated professionals is a force to be reckoned with.
Unlike many other outsourcing companies, we don’t focus on shedding jobs to reduce costs. Rather, we implement effective planning and working methods, training our people to use our best practice processes and tools, while empowering them to create value and reduce waste. We ensure they understand how they can contribute to realizing the full potential of maintenance for our customers, linking their performance targets directly to those agreed with the customer.
Realizing sustainable business benefits for our customers requires the development and optimization of maintenance practices in a continuous collaboration, where we work as an integrated part of their teams and take responsibility for success. With proven change management processes, we ensure maintenance continues to achieve measurable results and that the benefits always outweigh the cost.
Vision, Mission & Values
Our Vision
Realizing the full potential of maintenance
Our Mission
Empowering our people to achieve our customers’ goals in the most professional way
Our Values
We are passionate |
we are excited about the potential of maintenance and work hard to realize it. |
We are professional |
we know what we need to achieve, and have the capabilities and attitude to achieve it, safely and efficiently. |
We are proud |
we value the satisfaction that comes from acting with integrity and achieving our goals. |
Sustainability
Sustainability is considered in all that we do; how we design our services, what we offer customers, how we engage suppliers, how we assess risks and opportunities, and how we behave in the communities where we operate and towards one another.
In Quant, Occupational Health and Safety, Environment, Quality and Integrity are all contributing to sustainability.
Quant is certified according to ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001 in many of its operating countries. Quant’s integrated management system covers our industrial services, including total maintenance, maintenance management and asset class maintenance outsourcing and other industrial related services.
Safety & Environment
At Quant, we are committed to delivering our services responsibly and safely, preventing harm to our employees, contractors, customers, local communities, and the environment.
Our aim is zero harm, and to become and remain the best in class in safety.
Quality
Quant aims to continually improve the services we provide, to meet and exceed our Customers’ expectations, and to produce completed work that we can be proud of. We are passionate about our business and believe that only by providing outstanding service, and quality work, will we be able to achieve Quant’s long-term success.
We continually evaluate and develop our processes and systems to ensure they remain effective. We truly believe that our people make the difference, because every Quant colleague is a professional, responsible for the quality of his/her work.
Management Team
Olof Sand, CEO
Olof Sand is born in Sweden and has extensive experience of leading large global service organizations in highly competitive industries. Most recently Olof served as CEO & President at Anticimex, a global service and insurance company providing healthy indoor environments with a turnover of 400 million euros.
Prior Olof was CEO & President of Proact AB, Europe´s leading independent data storage integrator and cloud services enabler with operations in 14 countries and annual revenues of close to 300 million Euros. Olof has also held different senior management positions at ABB, Midroc (EM) and Tele2, he was also a co-founder of Acando an IT and Management Consultant Company.
Linda Höljö, CFO
Linda comes from Sweden and combines eight years experience from senior roles in Finance and Operations with fourteen years of investment management and private equity experience. She has worked both at large multinational corporations and with fastgrowing startups in various industries such as telecommunications, outsourcing services and financial services.
Terese Holmqvist, General Counsel
Coming from Sweden Terese has fifteen years of experience from legal work, focusing primarily on the purchase and sale of companies and businesses, most recently from a Swedish leading law firm.
Johan Harsta, COO
Currently based in Prague, but originally from Sweden, Johan has over 30 years process industry and maintenance management experience. Prior to his current role, Johan has held various positions throughout the world in research and development, product, operations and sales management, and most recently as head of the metals center of excellence.
Jacob Duhan, Senior Vice President Group Strategy and Business Development
Born in Sweden, Jacob has over 8 years of experience from international strategy consulting. He has led engagements related to sales excellence, M&A and product portfolio strategy for industrial maintenance providers and other industrial customers in Brazil, India, the US and a number of European countries.
Olof Hedin, CDO
Born in Sweden, Olof has worked in various industries including IT, manufacturing and process industries. Olof has been based in Asia, Europe and the US and primarily worked in Global organizations. Prior to this current role, Olof has held the position as CIO for a global manufacturer in the health care business.
John Cairns, Senior Vice President Asia Pacific
Originally from New Zealand, and currently based in China, John has worked in various industries including mining, oil & gas, metals, power sector and pulp & paper throughout Asia Pacific for the last 20 years, including the last 5 years in industrial maintenance. Prior to this current role, John has held various positions in project, operational and sales management in New Zealand, Australia and Malaysia.
Steve Streblow, Senior Vice President, North America
Born in the US, Steve brings over 30 years of industrial experience in sales, project management, and customer relations roles. Steve holds a B.S. in civil engineering and a Master’s in Business Administration.
Maximiliano Aqueveque, Senior Vice President, South America
From Chile, Maximiliano Aqueveque has almost 15 years of experience in mining and minerals industry. His areas of expertise includes operational excellence on maintenance in several sites all over the world, business development and has held various key positions as business unit management, MPC mining management, commercial and sales and also crushing and screening management. Maximiliano holds a B.E. in Metallurgy.
Pekka Venäläinen, Senior Vice President, North and Central Europe
Originally from Finland, however based in Sweden for 30 years, Pekka has more than 25 years of experience in industrial customer relations and maintenance management. Pekka have had several manager positions in ABB including, operations, project, sales, life cycle services, maintenance, and strategy management.
Basie Maponya, Senior Vice President, Sub-Saharan Africa
From South Africa based in Johannesburg Basie brings over 22 years of industrial experience . This cover various roles including Service Engineer, Projects Engineer, Engineering manager, Group Maintenance and Engineering Manager, Country Business Unit Director, Divisional Head Sales and Marketing. He has worked for leading industries such as Eskom, McCain Foods, Tongaat Hullets, Air Products and Siemens in the Southern and Eastern African Region Basie is a Mechanical Certificated Engineer.