History
Figeholms Bruk was founded 1931 and started to produce transformerboard 1932. It was a family owned company until 1973, when ASEA Sweden bought it. The company is today a part of ABB Sweden.The company, situated in Figeholm - a village on the Baltic coast of southern Sweden, a little more than 300 km south of Stockholm and about 15 km north of the town Oskarshamn.
There are domestic flights from Stockholm/Arlanda to Oskarshamn Airport, no more than 10 min by car from Figeholm. About 100 km south of Figeholm is the town Kalmar situated, which has good flight services to Stockholm and Copenhagen.
From these capitals there are good international flight connections. Rail services are also available to Oskarshamn.
The production is specialised on pressboard for use in power transformer insulation. The materials find application in other products as well, e.g. measuring transformers and power capacitors etc.
