Value Creation Across All Levels

With the sale of Cabcongroup to Milexia, Milexia Nordics has emerged as a company. This has added several new partners to the business and expanded the technology portofilio to include RF components, with increased focus on the defence and aerospace markets.

We cannot say for certain how many have realised that the former Cabcon Group was sold to the French company Milexia in 2024. But, with the risk of taking a cold wind rather than a lukewarm one, that is indeed the case. Out of this has grown a wide-ranging and knowledge-intensive organisation on a Nordic level, under the very logical name Milexia Nordics.

The acquisition has been in the making for some time, as Milexia has been scanning the market to find the most optimal opportunities – preferably in a market and with a potential partner that had not previously competed with Milexia. Cabcon Group met these criteria perfectly, so the acquisition became a reality last year. We visited to hear about the impact on the company’s people to date.

“For us old hands from Cabcon Group, it has been fantastic to come under the wings of Milexia. Many in Denmark probably knew the company as primarily within cables, connectors, and harnessing, accompanied by some passive and electromechanical products. Now ten new suppliers have been added to the portfolio, and most excitingly we have added RF to the existing product range. This is a very relevant addition, as frequencies in both cabling/connection and electromechanics are moving towards ever higher frequencies. RF thus becomes an integrated part of the tasks we work on,” says Brian Dehlsen during our visit to Milexia Nordics.

“We now have a far better opportunity to provide customers with value creation across all levels. A massive expansion of the programme, production facilities, and the support functions surrounding our original portfolio results in far more complete solutions, which can also be applied very elegantly in applications ranging from telecom and transport to aerospace and defence purposes. Many designs recur across immediate industry boundaries, and with the increased breadth of the portfolio we can offer solutions that can quickly and easily migrate between the otherwise very different industries,” adds Jacob Jørgensen of Milexia Nordics.

Defence Applications Are Interesting
The geopolitical situation has made defence applications an interesting market for several companies, and this is also the case at Milexia. In the parent company’s home country, France, defence accounts for roughly 35 percent. This was not a market in which the former Cabcon Group had a particularly strong presence, but in roughly a year under the Milexia Nordics name, defence projects have risen from almost nothing to between the expected five and eight percent in 2025, and the trend continues to rise.

“We are enhancing sales, support, and logistics solutions in both the ‘seven Nordic countries’ (Scandinavia, Finland, and the Baltics) and more broadly in Europe. To strengthen our competencies within RF/Microwave, we expanded the team at the end of 2024 with Benjamin Feistl, whom we moved from Germany to our HQ in Denmark. Benjamin brings both strong technical qualifications and solid business understanding, making him a key person in supporting customers and sales across our entire market. At the same time, we are strengthening our presence in the Nordics, with Milexia Nordics hiring Kai Nurmenniemi in Finland. And in April 2025, we took another important step forward with the acquisition of Positron OY, a company specialising in timing products.”

“With this combination of new competencies and strategic investments, we are well positioned to deliver a range of exciting solutions and projects to our customers in the coming years,” says Jacob Jørgensen.

It is clear that defence applications, for security reasons, are driving a significant portion of development and production back to Europe. Milexia, however, continues to maintain strong focus on the more price-sensitive industrial applications. The company has had an office in Hong Kong since 2006, to ensure their presence where cable solutions are manufactured and assembled, maintaining supply of components from competitive but quality-focused Asian producers.

“During COVID-19, we further strengthened our presence in the region by hiring Echo Liu, who, in close collaboration with our quality team in Hong Kong, has helped to effectively maintain the high quality level of the products we source from China. With new partners, more colleagues with technical know-how, and an even broader product portfolio, Milexia Nordics is today stronger than ever before and positions itself as a significant player in the Nordic market,” concludes Brian Dehlsen.

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This In the Media post is based on a translation of the article originally published on Aktuel Elektronik. Please note this article is in Danish.

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