I had the pleasure of meeting Stefan Lindbäck a few months
ago when we toured the Excel Modular Home factory in Liverpool , PA.
Since then I have been watching what his company is doing in Sweden and Europe
and I have to say, it’s very impressive.
Today I saw this article and now I’m wondering not if but
when he will bring the Swedish method of housing to this country.
Enjoy the article:
Everything Just Fits Together Naturally
By Aaron J. Brown in Minnesota Brown website
Stefan Lindbäck’s family has operated a lumber business near
Piteå , Sweden , a port municipality of about 40,000 people,
since 1924. Lindbäcks Bygg, now in its fourth generation, has become far more
than the sawmill Stefan’s great-grandfather Frans started between world wars.
Twenty years ago, during a recession in Sweden , Lindbäcks fell from 100
employees to 25.
The lumber and construction trusses they made weren’t
selling. They encountered the same problem our wood product and mining
industries now face here in Minnesota :
lower demand and lower prices.
At the same time, however, Sweden ’s entry into the European
Union loosened construction regulations in the Nordic nation, allowing taller
wooden structures. Sweden ,
like some European nations, had for many decades banned wooden construction
taller than two stories because of the risk of fires in densely populated
cities.
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Left to Right: Stefan Lindback, Gary Fleisher (Modcoach), Lars Stehn touring the Excel factory |
And while his company is focused on its meteoric growth in Sweden and Europe ,
Lindbäck hopes that the environmentally and cost-conscious ideas his company is
developing spreads to our corner of the world.
“I would love it, though I can’t promise it, if in a year or
two Minnesota
will see things we do done by companies in your area,” said Lindbäck. “We have
decided to do technology transfer to show other companies to build in our
manner. So, maybe, Swedish houses in a couple years.”
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