Production and development for over a hundred years
In 1899, a craftsman named Lars Fredrik Petterson opened the little carpenter’s shop that would later become AB Edsbyverken.
Throughout its history, the one constant has always been wood. The story tells of the company’s stellar ability to adjust to social changes. Although furniture has always been the dominant product, Edsbyverken has been involved in a wide variety of operations over the years and a lot of people probably still associate Edsbyn mainly with skis. That is perhaps to be expected, considering that we were one of the world’s biggest ski factories in the 1970s.
Unusual products
If you turn the pages of the history books back even further, you will find some truly unusual products. When the Spanish Flu raged around the world in the 1920s, for instance, the company made coffins. Ship fittings and rail carriages were also produced early in Edsbyverken’s long history.
Windsor chairs, which at first were made of waste wood from ski manufacturing, became an important product in the company’s development from carpenter’s shop to industry. The Windsor chair became a huge seller in the 1950s and more than five million were made.
Shown at right is Hillevi Rombin, Miss Universe 1955, with the “Fanett” chair, one of Edsbyn’s biggest successes with more than five million produced.
