Lidköpings Mekaniska Verkstad AB

Over 130 years of experience of grinding, milling and turning

Leading in the construction of machine components with extremely high demands.

Lidköpings Mekaniska Verkstad AB (LMV) has during its long history (over 125 years of experience) delivered components and machine parts to thousands of machines spread all over the world.

Our, over 130 year old, history

The company was founded in 1875. Originally, a big range of components were made. The year after the founding of SKF, in 1908, SKF bought their first grinding machine which later led to the merging of the two companies, in 1929.

The production changed gradually and focused on more accurate processing. In the year 2000, LMV joined the KMT-group (Karolin Machine Tool AB), which markets, develops and manufactured advanced production machines and system solutions for mechanical engineering.

Norekon Invest becomes the new owner of LMV

On the third of March this year an agreement was signed between Norekon Invest AB and KMT Lidköpings Mekaniska Verkstad AB (LMV). In 2007, LMV had sales of approximately 60 million SEK and has 52 employees. Norekon Invest is the owner of Noremech in Undenäs and LMV becomes therefore a sister company.

LMV and Noremech are both active in the machine processing sector of medium sized and large items. During a dozen-or-so years, the two companies has had business with each other. Because they are now sister companies they can, by an ever closer cooperation, provide customers with additional value.

LMVs and Noremechs market are mostly in the Nordic countries and their hardware appliances complement each other to a large extent, and togheter they give customers a wider choice and greater capacity.