UFAB joins SOFF

UFAB joins SOFF at a time when Industrial Performance fills a critical gap in the defence sector

We have joined Säkerhets- och försvarsföretagen (SOFF), the Swedish industry association for companies operating within defence and security. For us at UFAB, the membership comes at a time when the discussion around European defence capability is rapidly shifting — from strategy and investment to actual industrial capacity.

In a recent column for Borås Tidning, Per Schlingmann points to the defence industry as one of Sweden’s next major future sectors. As investments increase and production capacity expands, the challenge is no longer only what the industry can develop — but how reliably it can produce, adapt and deliver over time.

This is where we believe industrial performance becomes critical.

“In many cases, the specifications are not the issue. The challenge begins when the same result needs to be delivered repeatedly — across higher volumes, changing setups and tighter timelines,” says Axel Herz, Sales Manager at UFAB.

For decades, large parts of European manufacturing have been optimized for efficiency and predictability. But as the defence sector grows, production environments are expected to become both more flexible and more resilient at the same time.

For us, this shift is closely connected to our guiding principle: Make more. With less.

Not simply as an efficiency statement, but as a way of approaching modern manufacturing — where control, adaptability and long-term consistency increasingly determine industrial capability.

This perspective also shapes how we work with machining, welding, assembly and quality assurance. In complex production environments, small deviations rarely stay isolated. They accumulate across processes, batches and systems over time. Maintaining performance therefore becomes less about individual parts, and more about how the entire production flow behaves under pressure.

By joining SOFF, we look forward to contributing with this perspective while continuing to develop our own capabilities together with other actors across the defence and security ecosystem.

The membership creates new opportunities for collaboration, knowledge exchange and long-term industrial development as the sector adapts to increasing demands on resilience, scalability and delivery capability.

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Borås Tidning – “Försvarsindustrin: Sveriges nästa framtidsbransch?”