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Swagelok Norway

Your Authorized Swagelok Sales and Service Center in Norway

Swagelok Norway - 50 Years Supporting Norwegian Industry

Swagelok Norway About Us Swagelok Norway - 50 Years Supporting Norwegian Industry

This year our organization has reached a milestone and we want to mark this important moment in our ongoing development by looking back at how far we have come while dreaming of and planning for the future. Nothing we have ever accomplished or will ever accomplish would be possible without our customers, employees, and suppliers so we thank you for your support.

 

Join us for a look back at the first fifty years of Swagelok Norway.

  

1970s

  • Founded by entrepeneur Sören Wismar, OVAFAS Oslo Valve & Fitting AS becomes the first and only authorized Swagelok sales and service center in Norway. Major petroleum companies turn to us for leak-tight components from the very beginning.
  • Realizing that the oil business was booming near Stavanger, Wismar addresses the needs of the market by opening  SVAFAS Stavanger Valve & Fitting AS.
  • The Norwegian government establishes Statoil, and the country votes no to joining the European Community (EC).
  • Oil production begins at the Ekofisk field.

1980s

  • Swagelok Company's product range develops in step with the rapidly growing demands and needs of the industry.
  • Gro Harlem Brundtland becomes Norway’s first female Prime Minister.
  • SVAFAS relocates from Badedammen to Nedstrandsgaten in Storhaug.
  • The Norwegian Government Pension Fund (later known as the Government Pension Fund Global) is established.
  • OVAFAS closes its Oslo office, consolidating all operations in Stavanger.
 

1990s

  • SVAFAS receives DNV approval for our training program, Swagelok School. SVAFAS's training programs have practically become a requirement within the oil industry.
  • A growing focus on environmental sustainability and technological advancements takes center stage.
  • Adventure travel from Scandinavia to exotic destinations increases rapidly, while Swagelok's reach becomes even wider thanks to new sales and service centers. As Swagelok Co. expands its global network, we too become more international. Several of our customers have a global field of work and they value the service that the Swagelok organization can offer no matter where in the world they are.
  • Norway hosts the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer.
  • "The Swagelok Companies" decide to leave the Whitey, Cajon, Sno-Trik and Nupro brands behind to consolidate and focus the company's identity on a single logo and brand: Swagelok.
 

2000s

  • Thanks to the internet, new media are born and we learn new words such as blog, influencer, and tweet, and SVAFAS begins accepting orders via the web.
  • Super Duplex steel is introduced to the market, securing a significant foothold for ConocoPhillips in the North Sea, with SVAFAS as the primary supplier.
  • Sören Wismar retires and Leif Terje Tvedt is appointed as the new distributor principal for SVAFAS.
  • SVAFAS relocates to new premises at Forus where there is more space for the growing workforce, a larger warehouse, and a workshop.
  • We launch a design and assembly department and start delivering tailored solutions according to our customers' specific needs. It is an important step in our development from component supplier to solution supplier.
 

2010s

  • SVAFAS begins doing business as Swagelok Norway.
  • Swagelok Norway is acquired by Swedish businessman Tommy Horneman and with that Swagelok Norway and Swagelok Sweden become one! We get new colleagues and our customers get even better support now that we work hand in hand all over Sweden and Norway.
  • Swagelok Norway expands its field engineering and service offerings to meet our customers' needs with more training, system analysis, and equipment rental. Today, the Services team performs a number of different services on-site at customers and trains scores of industrial employees every year.
 

2020s

  • Thomas F. Lodzick, grandson of Fred A. Lennon, assumes the role of CEO of Swagelok Company.
  • Discussions surrounding climate change and environmental sustainability intensify. Swagelok Norway, with our decades of experience working with hydrogen, eagerly seek and supply clean energy projects with components, safety training, system audits, and other support services.
  • Swagelok Norway experiences a fire in the warehouse of our headquarters; operations are temporarily relocated but resume swiftly.
  • The Ekofisk field celebrates its 50th anniversary, marking half a century of oil production.
  • We move into our new headquarters at Moseidveien 23 in Forus.
  • We celebrate our anniversary with an eye on the future! 

Over the next 50 years, we will become experts in several areas, hire more committed employees, reach out to and learn from new customers, contribute to the energy transition, and continue to live our values. We hope you'll join us!