Trade & Industry
The municipality of Mönsterås is known for having a large number of companies active in such widely different trades as forest industry and information technology (IT).
The administration of Mönsterås
In order to strengthen the enterprising spirit, the municipality runs its own company, Mönsterås Utvecklings AB (MUAB). The object of MUAB is to initiate projects for facilitating the creation of new companies, and to support existing companies in various ways. MUAB assists in questions of establishment and leases out premises.
The municipality of Mönsterås offers planned industrial estates in all population centres. If you are interested in establishment within our municipality, please contact MUAB
Mönsterås Bruk
Mönsterås Bruk is the largest producer in the world of paper pulp without chloride chemicals.
75 per cent of the total production of 750 000 tons is delivered to various European paper mills. The mill employ nearly 500 people.
By the mill is also Mönsteråssågen, the sawmill, with a capacity of 250 000 cubic metres of sawed goods and almost 100 employees.
Manufacturing industry
Within the municipality there are about 1 200 companies, 100 of which are manufacturing companies, where Mönsterås Bruk, the pulp mill, is the largest.
Out of the forest
Within the municipality there are a number of furniture manufacturers with products ranging from complete lecture halls, office chairs, to period furniture designed by Carl Malmsten. Another speciality is organ building, where the wood and handicraft know-how of the district, combined with the musical interest, comes in handy.
Service Trade
The municipality administration has lately invested efforts in facilitating the establishment of service producing firms. The successful result is that companies offering i.e. advisory service in health care, technical support and personnel development recently started their business in Mönsterås.
Diversity
IT is an expanding area of late, and there is peak competence in the development of base station antennae as well as in the production of Internet web pages. Other existing trades of industry are foundry; sandwich products, mainly for lorry bodies; tool manufacturing; foam plastic; sewage treatment equipment; control equipment, and art pottery, where Gabriel-Keramik AB designs and produces original products.
It is a family business which develops, manufactures and markets pottery of stoneware and supply glazed tiles to the tile stove market in Scandinavia. The factory is situated in Timmernabben and each year its shop is visited by more than 100 000 people.
Working together
The understanding that co-operation is important and promotes all parties, has resulted in about 20 engineering companies coming together to form an economical association with a co-ordination in purchasing, marketing and staff training. Tilka Trading AB proves that it is possible to run a major trading business, within a very large geographical area from a location outside the big city regions.