Yaskawa Electric Corporation and Variadores SAS announce that Variadores SAS has been completely acquired by Yaskawa America, Inc., the wholly owned subsidiary of Yaskawa Electric Corporation.
The entire management and staff of Variadores will remain in place with headquarters in Bogotá, and additional locations in Medellín, Cali, and Barranquilla. Variadores has partnered with Yaskawa as an independent company since 1991 and has grown to become today’s top variable speed drive supplier in Colombia. Variadores supplies low and medium voltage Yaskawa Drives across all the major industrial, municipal, and commercial automation segments, capped with a very large presence in the oil and gas market segment.
Yaskawa America President and CEO Mike Knapek explains, “I have been directly involved with this partnership for the last 25 years of this 35-year partnership. Rarely have we had a partner that was more lockstep with our customer-centric philosophy of providing the highest quality solutions backed with the very best automation knowledge and customer service. For many years, it has been like we were already one company, and now we are formalizing that.”