The Kontron Group (until May 2022: S&T) of enterprises is an IT consulting, products and services provider with its head office in Linz, Austria.
The company started up in Slovakia, Bulgaria and Ukraine and other branches were established over the next few years in Romania, Moldova and Yugoslavia.
In the early years, S&T specialized in the sale of IT computer hardware and software, as a distributor for Hewlett Packard but they turned their focus to IT consulting and services in 2000.
Medical Systems Business, as it was called at the time, was taken over by Agilent Technologies when HP split into two companies in 1999.
The two smallest business units in this sector (Chemical Analysis and Electronic Testing and Measuring Systems) were sold again one year later.
The company gained a branch in Ukraine with the acquisition of Soft-Tronik in 2000, and acquired one in Poland by purchasing Largo Systems.
in Croatia in 2005 and 2006 saw a total of four takeovers: S&T purchased the IT activities of T-System in Turkey, took over Unitis in Hungary, the Grall Group in the Czech Republic and BEELC in Poland.
It took stakes in Networked Energy Services Corp. and in Affair OOO, and purchased ubitronix system solutions GmbH.
[6] According to the Dutch OSINT platform Datenna, Foxconn's stake in S&T led to a low risk of state influence on S&T by the Chinese government.