 The acquisition made Valmet Automotive one of the three biggest roof system manufacturers in the world.In January 2017, CATL became a 23,08% minority stakeholder in the company, the other shareholders being Pontos and Tesi (Finnish Industry Investment).Soon thereafter, in March 2017, Valmet Automotive concluded the acquisition of Semcon's automotive engineering services in Germany and Spain, increasing its number of engineers to over 1000.