Our history
Our history is full of inventiveness, courage and community. Since the start in 1935 we have grown, changed and developed, but always with the same driving force: to create springs and solutions that make a difference. Here you can follow our journey and our milestones.
Irma and Einar Svensson found EWES under the then name E. W. Svenssons Metallvarufabrik
The first automatic spring coiling machine is ordered from the German machine manufacturer Karl Hack. Export licences and material shortages delay delivery all the way until 1952!
EWES nozag springs transform the Swedish furniture industry in the 1950s. Today up to 1 million springs per year are manufactured at EWES in Bosnia.
Kjell Svensson founds the Swedish Spring Manufacturers' Association and then the European Spring Federation, ESF
E. W Svenssons Metallvarufabrik becomes EWES and is converted into a limited company.
The sons Kjell and Klas Svensson, together with their siblings, take over the management of EWES as the second generation of the family business
This is where it all started in 1935. In the shed between the smithy and the brewhouse
Kjell Svensson, the second generation, between his parents Einar and Irma.
In the mid-1950s the nozag spring is launched. EWES is involved from the start and produces in three shifts as the spring quickly becomes the Swedish standard.
Klas Svensson, Kjell's brother and part of the second generation. Important in the collaboration with Rank Xerox and the Canada venture. Klas passed away from cancer in 1994.
EWES launches a BASIC-programmed computer for spring calculation and takes the world by storm.
The BASIC computer paves the way for the collaboration with Xerox and the start of Canada's largest spring factory.
The cousins Anders Cederquist and Anton Svensson take over the management of EWES, and the third generation is in place.
EWES subsidiaries see the light of day:
Serbia | 2004
China | 2005
Bosnia | 2013