Finspang

Finspang is a locality and the seat of Finspång Municipality, Ostergotland County, Sweden with 12,440 population in 2010. Finspång is a traditional business city. The first industries were set up in 1580 whilst a Royal manufacturing facility for cannon and cannon balls changed into chartered. The enterprise become to keep for three hundred years below supervision of the Walloon/Dutch family De Geer. Anders Qvarfordt turned into hired through Count Louis de Geer. His assignment turned into "to lodge and feed the Count de Geers Vallon blacksmiths". Finspang Castle was built by using Louis De Geer, and round it industries and an orangery advanced into the town of Finspang.

In the overdue nineteenth century Bofors steel works, which to begin with provided forgings and castings to the factory, commenced to expand into the weapons business. With Alfred Nobel's assist, by way of the 1911 AB Bofors-Gullspang had outcompeted, sold and closed down its competitor. When in 1913 a turbine plant STAL was based in the metropolis, each true metalwork facilities and professional hard work have been to be had. In 1916 the company have become a subsidiary of ASEA.