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Located in Karlskoga neighborhood of Bofors, Sweden, the company originates from the hammer mill "Boofors", which was founded as a royal state-owned company in 1646 when P. L. Hosman was permitted to erect a forge at the site. [4] Sigrid Ekehielm, also known as Boås-Beata, [5] who lived from the 1640s to 1700, at one point owned it. [6]
BAE Systems Bofors AB, located in Karlskoga, Sweden, is a Swedish subsidiary of BAE Systems Platforms & Services. Its corporate heritage goes back to Bofors, which was founded in 1646 and entered the Defence business in 1883. In 1999 Saab purchased the Celsius Group, the parent group of Bofors.
Saab Bofors Dynamics is a subsidiary of the Saab Group that specializes in military materiel such as missile systems and anti-tank systems. It is located in Karlskoga and Linköping , Sweden . Its corporate heritage goes back to Bofors , a hammer mill , which was founded as a royal state-owned company in 1646.
BAE Systems' interests in Sweden are a result of the purchases of Alvis Vickers and UDI, which owned Hägglunds and Bofors respectively; the companies are now part of BAE Systems AB. [151] On 6 April 2022, BAE Systems announced the establishment of BAE Systems Japan, a subsidiary located in Akasaka, Tokyo, Japan.
Saab was founded by AB Bofors in 1937 as Svenska Aeroplan Aktiebolaget (acronym SAAB; lit. ' The Swedish Aeroplane Corporation '), located in Trollhättan, [5] by reforming the aircraft engine division of engineering company NOHAB (Nohab Flygmotorfabrik AB, lit. ' Nohab Aero engine factory '), which had been
Landon responded with such gestures as, legend has it, smuggling from Sweden a Bofors cannon, normally for military use, that the sultan mounted on his yacht.
Nobel Biocare in its current form was founded in 2002. It originates from a partnership formed in 1978 between Swedish medical researcher Professor Per-Ingvar Brånemark and Bofors, a Swedish company, to industrialize Brånemark's discovery of osseointegration [2] (the fusing of titanium with bone).
The primary armament was a 5-inch/.38 caliber gun, flanked by 40 mm Oerlikon cannons and 20 mm Bofors anti-aircraft guns, provided aerial defense in intermediate and close ranges. These escort ...