On the west coast of Finland, on the Gulf of Bothnia, you will find an area of towns and municipalities where both Swedish and Finnish are spoken. One of these municipalities is Jakobstad, or Pietarsaari in Finnish. The town was founded in 1652.

Plymouth in South West England has long been associated with the sea. In 1620 the Pilgrim Fathers left Plymouth for the New World, establishing a colony of the same name in what is now the USA. Plymouth now has ferry links to France and Spain and is home to the largest operational naval base in Western Europe.

In the far northwest of Spain you will find Cape Finisterre, so called after the Latin Finis terrae which means “the End of the World”. A long time ago one used to think that here on the shores of the rough Atlantic ocean the world had come to an end.

The pioneers of the German automobile industry such as Gottfried Daimler and Carl Friedrich Benz developed, constructed, and built the first cars almost single-handedly. Only very few components were supplied. 

What do an electronic component, a sun protection system, and a sports car have in common? All three contain one or more components made of aluminium or, as is the case of the sun protection system, are made of this material in their entirety.

The company Nohab Industri AB in Trollhättan—north of Gothenburg—can look back on a long company history. Founded in 1847 the then named Trollhättan Mekaniska Verkstad was a machine shop, then in 1916 the name was changed into Nohab Industri AB.

Wind is motion. Wind moves sailing boats and wind moves the sails of windmills—keeping the grinder moving to grind the grain to flour. Today man uses wind to produce electricity with the help of wind turbines. At first the kinetic energy of the wind is transformed into mechanical energy which in turn in transformed into electricity.

Desde hace miles de años, conocemos el vidrio,  un material enormemente multifacético y robusto. En el pasado lo utilizamos por ejemplo como herramienta de corte pero también para crear joya.  Además, gracias al soplado artesanal perfeccionado durante los siglos especialmente por los Venecianos, conocemos objetos de decoración y de arte con colores de brillo magnífico.

Morris Cranes, a Division of Morris Material Handling SA (Pty) Ltd, a wholly owned South African company and the agent of ABUS Kransysteme GmbH in South Africa, has supplied a total of eighteen Double-Girder cranes to Efficient Engineering Pty Ltd.

Looking back just 150 years and it becomes clear very quickly that agricultural business at the time meant hard physical work and working by hand. It was only through increasing industrialisation thanks to the invention of steam engines that agriculture saw industrial-mechanical processes introduced which lead to work-sharing production.