Fincantieri announces the agreement for the acquisition of Next Geosolutions, WSense, Graal Tech and Defcomm. These four strategic transactions in the Underwater segment significantly enhance the Group’s positioning in a domain that is becoming increasingly central to security, energy and the development of critical infrastructure. Next Geosolutions, listed on the Euronext Growth Milan segment, is among the leading international players in marine survey and geoscience services, as well as in offshore construction support services. WSense, Graal Tech and Defcomm are Italian high tech scale-ups specializing, respectively, in underwater communications and the Internet of Underwater Things, autonomous underwater vehicles and autonomous surface vehicles.
The four companies will be integrated into Fincantieri’s Underwater technological hub, which will coordinate product and commercial synergies, also thanks to the development of solutions for the unconventional Underwater domain. The hub will evolve into an international underwater operator, comprising 8 market-leading companies, fully vertically integrated, working synergistically to enable significant cross-fertilization across the Group.
The structure of the four transactions guarantees managers/shareholders continuity through the reinvestment of significant stakes in the respective companies, ensuring industrial continuousness and the enhancement of distinctive capabilities, which are critical to the execution of the growth plans defined with each company.
The initiative marks a significant step forward in the Group's positioning across the Underwater value chain, expanding its offerings to the marine services business and thus evolving its role from a provider of technology solutions and platforms to the first-of-its-kind industrial operator capable of integrating competences, systems and services along the entire value chain of the underwater segment.