Roshel acquires Centigon, building armored-vehicle network across four countries
What's the deal? Canadian armored vehicle manufacturer RoshelDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → has completed its acquisition of Centigon, folding it into Roshel Group and creating a transatlantic network spanning Canada, France, Mexico, and Colombia. Terms were not disclosed.
What each side brings: Roshel builds armored vehicles; Centigon adds civilian and law-enforcement armored vehicles, heavy-duty truck cabs, ballistic glass, and protection engineering. Centigon traces its roots to coachbuilding operations from 1876, giving it roughly 150 years of experience.
The combined group will serve defense, law enforcement, diplomatic security, and commercial customers across multiple vehicle categories.
What changes? Roshel Group's capabilities will now extend from protection materials and components to complete vehicles. Centigon's Colombian plants make ballistic glass, its French operations design armored cabs for military trucks, and its Mexican sites produce armored civilian vehicles, cash-in-transit platforms, and tactical vehicles.
Centigon's ballistic testing range and laboratory in France will become a shared engineering resource for developing armor materials and new protection concepts.
What's the endgame? Roshel wants an integrated footprint on both sides of the Atlantic to strengthen supply chains, lift production capacity, and support customers over the operational life of their fleets. Latin America matters for its established demand for protected civilian and security vehicles.
"Governments can make security and defence commitments, but it takes industry to deliver on them," Roshel chief executive officer Roman Shimonov said. "Welcoming Centigon connects the people, engineering and manufacturing capabilities needed to meet that responsibility."
Why now? The deal expands Roshel's European presence as Canada and European countries pursue closer defense-industrial cooperation. The company pointed to Canada's participation in the EU's Security Action for Europe (SAFE) initiative as a key part of that relationship, and said combining its Canadian base with Centigon's French operations opens access to European procurement opportunities.
The signal: The acquisition reflects defense manufacturers consolidating to secure supply chains and scale across regions. By uniting a Canadian producer with European and Latin American operations, Roshel is positioning itself to win contracts in markets increasingly focused on sovereign and allied industrial capacity.
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