Novatron becomes fully Nordic owned

MOBA Mobile Automation AG has sold its stake in Finnish company Novatron Oy to investor Mandatum Asset Management. The transaction takes effect on December 23, 2025. With this step, Novatron returns to fully Nordic ownership and enforces its presence and position as a machine control manufacturer in the Nordic market. As part of the same transaction, MOBA AG’s Swedish subsidiary MOBA Sweden AB, focusing on the distribution and service of Xsite products, will also be transferred to Novatron.
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Novatron becomes fully Nordic owned

22.12.2025
MOBA Mobile Automation AG has sold its stake in Finnish company Novatron Oy to investor Mandatum Asset Management. The transaction takes effect on December 23, 2025. With this step, Novatron returns to fully Nordic ownership and enforces its presence and position as a machine control manufacturer in the Nordic market. As part of the same transaction, MOBA AG’s Swedish subsidiary MOBA Sweden AB, focusing on the distribution and service of Xsite products, will also be transferred to Novatron.
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Novatron acquires MOBA Sweden AB – a Nordic investment for the future of machine control solutions

10.12.2025
Novatron Oy has acquired MOBA Sweden AB, which will now become part of the Novatron Group under the name Novatron Sweden AB. The acquisition marks a strategically important investment in the Nordic market and opens new opportunities for development, innovation, and long-term stability for both customers and employees.
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Mandatum Asset Management to support Novatron’s growth and international expansion

9.12.2025
The growth story of Finnish technology company Novatron is gaining new momentum with an investment from Mandatum Asset Management’s Growth Equity II fund. The investment supports the company’s international expansion and commercialization of innovations in infrastructure construction automation.
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Novatron’s Machine Control System supports excavator rotator attachments according to MiC 4.0 BUS protocol First in the Industry 

27.10.2025
Construction machinery manufacturers in the VDMA and construction companies in the HDB founded the MiC 4.0 working group as a cooperation project in 2019. Its aim is to develop standardized, manufacturer-independent and machine-independent digital communication for all aspects of the construction process. Novatron joined VDMA and MiC 4.0 working group as a member in 2025 and is the first to achieve manufacturer-independent communication between an attachment and a work machine using its excavator control system.
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First In The Industry: Novatron provides ISO/TS 15143-4 compliant machine control solution 

16.10.2025
Novatron’s Xsite 3D Machine Control System, together with Xsite MANAGE Cloud Service, provides industry’s first ISO/TS 15143-4 worksite data exchange specification compliant solution.
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Novatron’s Xsite 3D machine control system and end-user support services are the first choice for rental fleet operators

6.10.2025
Developed for demanding Nordic needs, the solution has proven to be excellent for the customer base of Volvo Construction Equipment Finland Oy and the Norwegian construction contractor Sartor Drange As.