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Olofsfors AB will be closed on 1 November

Press Release – Olofsfors Hires New Talent to Strengthen Market Position

In a time when industries are facing challenges, Olofsfors chooses to go against the tide by strengthening its marketing organization with the hiring of Alexander Bakshi as a sales representative in the forestry track segment.

Olofsfors AB is closed for holidays w. 29-30

From 15 to 26 July, Olofsfors AB is closed for holidays.

Olofsfors AB wishes you a Happy Midsummer!

On Thursday 20 June and Friday 21, Midsummer's Eve, Olofsfors AB's switchboard is closed and no deliveries will be made on these days. We wish you all a fantastic midsummer!

Olofsfors AB is closed 6-7 June

Olofsfors AB is closed Thursday and Friday, 6-7 June. Welcome back on Monday 10 June.

Olofsfors AB is closed on Friday 10 May

Have a nice weekend! Welcome back on Monday 13 May at 07:30.

Olofsfors AB wishes everbody a Happy Walpurgis Night

Welcome back on Thursday the 2nd of May, we open at 07: 30.

Press release - The Master is Back

Olofsfors AB is closed on Twelfth Night

Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year!

Olofsfors AB wishes you all a merry Christmas!

Olofsfors AB is closed on November 3rd

Olofsfors AB will be closed Thursday and Friday, October 12-13

Olofsfors AB is closed for holidays week 29-30

From 17 to 28 July, Olofsfors AB is closed for holidays. We wish everyone a pleasant summer!

Olofsfors AB is closed 22-23 June

Olofsfors AB is closed 22-23 June to celebrate Midsummer's eve. Welcome back Monday, June 26th.

Olofsfors raise their Pink Ribbon fundraising to another level

Since 2010, Olofsfors AB, together with private individuals and companies in the forestry industry, have been raising money through the Pink Ribbon fundraiser.

400 frying pans being produced for Ukraine civil population

The Ukraine frying pan is an initiative by the coworkers at Olofsfors AB with a will to contribute to something for the people living in the war zone in Ukraine. The inspiration comes from the production of wood stoves started by several companies in Sweden. ”Our target is to have the 400 frying pans sent to Ukraine just after Easter”, says Tomas Strömberg, Production Director at Olofsfors AB.

ALL TIME HIGH – this year's collection beats all past records

A record number of people have contributed to this year's fundraiser for the Breast Cancer Association. 233 000 Swedish kronor (SEK) was the goal for this year's collection. It may seem like an odd amount, but that sum now means that Olofsfors AB, with private individuals and companies around Sweden together have gathered just over SEK 1,6 million for cancer research, since the start in 2010.

No one can do everything, but together we can make a difference

This year's fundraising for the Swedish Breast Cancer Association is already on going and in connection with Olofsfors’ open house and the 260th anniversary, the visitors raised almost 6,000 SEK. This money that goes to breast cancer research, cancer patients, survivors, and their relatives through Olofsfors fundraising at the Swedish Breast Cancer Association.

Olofsfors AB secures the roads for World Rally Championship 2022

Petter Solberg, 3-time world champion, has handed over his legacy to his son Oliver Solberg who is now the great promise of the future at only 20 years old. Oliver drives for Hyundai's Rally Team and is predicted to have a brilliant career. 10,000 miles in a car, every year, on different continents, changing road conditions and a variety of environments, means that Oliver has extensive experience of what a good rally road should look like and what are optimal road conditions.

Guldklubban 2021

Olofsfors owner Anders Wikström is nominated for the prestigious “Guldklubban 2021”.

We are changing the part number on Tracks for Alliance tires

Change of part number on Alliance 643 FORESTAR III

Many Thanks!

Over 200 000 Swedish Kronor (SEK) has been collected so far this year, through the Pink Ribbon fundraiser that Olofsfors has created on the Breast Cancer Association website. Since 2010, Olofsfors has contributed 1 367 000 SEK to cancer research through the collection. The funds are spent on breast cancer research, as well as current patients, survivors and their families.

Will you be the one who recieves the 2021 years Pink Ribbon Track?

The draw for this year's Pink Ribbon Track, in favor of cancer research, will take place during the Annual General Meeting of forest contractors.

Press Release: Olofsfors owner invests in new industrial premises

”We have created the conditions for further development and expansion of our products within the group”, says Anders Wikström, owner of Olofsfors AB and CEO of P. Wikström J:r AB.

Olofsfors GmbH now in Simmozheim, Germany

On October 9, the opening ceremony of the new Olofsfors facility in Germany took place.

Press release: Meaningful commitment from the forest industry

“Nowadays everyone can participate, and all the sums are counted, big and small" says Kjell-Erik Åström, Sales and Marketing Manager at Olofsfors.

Welcome to the new Olofsfors website

Welcome to the new Olofsfors website: which embodies the substantial work from our brand over the last two years.

Press release - Olofsfors newly hires and changes its market organization

Olofsfors strengthens and changes the market organization in the forest business area by hiring Micael Olsson, who most recently came from Cranab in Vindeln.

Alexandra Uusaro writing her Master Thesis at Olofsfors AB

Olofsfors is a market leader in production of plow steel on the global market. We are also working in close cooperation with the mining industry in especially Sweden but also in other countries. Both for plow steel and product applications to the mining industry, our customers demand only the highest quality products produced from boron steel giving long wear life and cost efficient daily use of the products. Therefore Olofsfors AB has started a long term cooperation with LTU(Luleå Technical University) and Boliden Mining company to study wear life and wear time both from practical applications doing field studies as well as more scientific tests in laboratorial environment.

Press release - Olofsfors has recruited a new CEO

"After 30 years in the company, I hand over the CEO position."

Olofsfors wants to save the rescuers

Despite the fact that as a firefighter you run twice as high a risk of getting cancer, many people combine their regular job with saving others. Olofsfors AB currently employs 6 part-time firefighters.

Olofsfors has won the "Manufacturing Industry of the Year" award

Sweden is currently in fifth place in the world in terms of robot density, with 277 robots per 10,000 employees, according to statistics from IFR (International Federation of Robotics). During ABB Robotics Experience Day, December 9, Olofsfors was awarded the honorary award "Manufacturing Industry of the Year".

Best international growth

Big congratulations to our fantastic owner Anders Wikström, Olofsfors AB (P. Wikström J: r AB), who on Thursday night was awarded for "Best International Growth" in EY Entrepreneur of the Year, region north.

New link system

Olofsfors can now offer a 29 mm link system for your track.

Olofsfors AB strengthens its presence in Northern Sweden

From 1 December 2019, Olofsfors AB will double its resources in northern Sweden within its product areas wear steel for construction machinery and road steel for plows and graders.

Olofsfors AB receives the prestigious award, Export Company of the Year

The recipient of the Umeå Gala's prestigious Export Prize went to Olofsfors AB this year.

The last steel out, when Olofsfors road steel line goes into the grave

Since the start in 1992, 50,000 tonnes of steel have rolled through the old road steel line, which has now done its part. This week, the last road steel rolled through the line that over the years has spit out about 4 million road steels. A journey, the steels laid out one after the other from Olofsfors in the north to Egypt in the south.

Press release - New production record

It is the tailwind of the tracks and steel manufacturer Olofsfors AB. With a new sales record for 2018, the new year has started strongly with a production record on their forest machine tracks. 120 pairs of tapes have been made in one week.

Press release - Olofsfors AB took home this year's production award at Nordmaling's corporate gala

“Old is still the oldest. This company delivers nothing but clearly measurable and good results, results that the whole municipality is proud of. At the same time, they stand for security, growth and an enormous commitment to the municipality ”. This was part of the motivation that Conny Nordendahl, business developer in Nordmalings Municipality, read out when it was announced that Olofsfors had won this year's Production Award.

Olofsfors is nominated for Nordmaling's gala

Nordmaling's corporate gala 2018 will be held on 16 November and it is now clear that Olofsfors is one of the nominated companies at this year's production award.

Run a forest machine with Olofsfors tracks in a new video game

Olofsfors tracks is included in the latest edition from Farming Simulator. The video game developed by Giants Software invites you to a world as a modern forest machine operator.

New unique track by Olofsfors with exceptional flotation capacity

This summer Olofsfors will release its biggest news in a long time. With the new CoverX, the life of the forestry machine tracks increases significantly. ”CoverX has an unique profile, which doesn’t look like anything else before”, says Kjell-Erik Åström, Regional Sales Manager of Olofsfors.