NYFORS - the river of inspiration

NYFORS is not only the name of our company. It is an actual river. A river that has been a source of power for industrial production since the early 16th century. Today NYFORS river is a continuous stream of inspiration for us to develop new and innovative solutions.

About

OUR HISTORY - Timeline

1990

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RECOATER 1™

NYFORS launched the world’s first product for recoating of optical fiber
– the RECOATER 1™. It became the industry standard for high precision recoating with the highest demand on quality and accuracy. The RECOATER 1™ is still used for production around the world. NYFORS recoaters are unique through their mould technology that makes them unbeatable in flexibility and recoating quality.

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1991

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INTERFEROMETER™

NYFORS launched an interferometric micro- scope to evaluate the cleaving process and end-surfaces of fiber – the CLEAVEMETER™ is now born.

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1999

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AUTOCOATER™

A fully automatic recoater – the AUTOCOATER™ – is launched to meet the increased demand for rational and fast production. This system is also branded and sold under the Ericsson brand for example on the North American market. The system is sold under the name EFR 3000 by Ericsson. A unique and novel feature was the square recoating moulds for volume industrial manufacturing.

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History

NYFORS was founded in 1987 by Uwe Böttcher, the former head of Fusion Splicing research and development at LM Ericsson Fiber Optics, to design and manufacture fiber preparation equipment.

The fiber optical cable between the Swedish mainland and the island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea was one of the first major telecommunications projects in which NYFORS participated. This pioneering project was carried out in close collaboration between Televerket and Alcatel, with NYFORS providing the on-board fiber recoaters.

In 1988, NYFORS launched the first commercial optical fiber recoater in the world. During the 1990´s and the 2000´s, a number of products used for stripping and preparation, cleaving, recoating and proof testing of optical fiber were developed. Today, our machines and instruments are used for volume production and within research and development operations. Our customers are found within a wide range of industrial sectors, from aerospace and telecom to medicine, as well as public and private research institutions around the world.

History of location

Nyfors Teknologi AB is located 15 kilometers to the south of Stockholm, Sweden. (Click here for contact details and map.)

The company is named after nearby stream which has been used as a source of power for industrial production from late medieval times up until the last century.

With a height of fall of about five meters, the Nyfors rapids are among the largest and most accessible ones in this part of Sweden. In the early 16th century, an iron works was established on this site. Later other industries followed, such as a gun powder manufacturing plant for the Swedish army, spinning mills and a pulp and paper production plant, thus making Nyfors an important early modern industrial center of Stockholm.

Today, all industrial activities at the Nyfors stream have ceased. As a part of the Tyresta Nature Reserve the rapids now provide a home to some rare species of birds.

Social Responsability

Corporate social responsibility for us means to take social, ethical, economic and environmental responsibility for our business and to make a contribution to the development of society.To this end, we have chosen to support Situation Stockholm, a non-profit organisation that exists to offer homeless people in Stockholm the opportunity to earn a legitimate income and a chance to rebuild their lives. The organisation produces and distributes a monthly magazine, which homeless street vendors buy for 25 SEK and sell for 50 SEK, thereby earning them a profit for every sold copy.

Any post investment profit generated through the sale of the magazine or the sale of advertising is passed on to charity work within the organization.

The organisation currently supports a large number of homeless people in Stockholm and the magazine is read by over 145 000 people every month.

Financial

NYFORS has received the highest credit rating – AAA – from the leading Swedish credit- and business information company Soliditet for the financial year 2019 and 2020.

The AAA-rating indicates financial stability and the capability by a company to repay loans – both long and short term – and is only awarded to limited companies that have existed for at least ten years, with a turnover higher than two million SEK and with financial ratios substantially higher than industry average.

NYFORS is ranked among the top five percent of Swedish limited companies with the highest credit worthiness. The same AAA-credit rating was awarded to NYFORS for several financial years among them are 2007/08, 2008/09, 2010/11, 2011/12, 2014/15, 2016/17 and 2019/20.

For more information, please visit Soliditet’s webpage.

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Trademarks

SMARTSPLICER™, Axicon Splicing™, Gravity Splicing™, RECOATER 1™, RECOATER 2™, AUTOCOATER™, AUTOCOATER 2™, MINICOATER™, MINICOATER 2™, MINICLEAVER™, MINICLEAVER LDF™ AUTOCLEAVER™, AUTOCLEAVER LDF™, AUTOCLEAVER LDF-M™, AUTOCLEAVER LDA™, ANGLE CLEAVING UNIT™, AUTOCLEAVER S1™, AUTOCLEAVER S2™, CLEAVEMASTER™, AUTOPREP II™, AUTOPREP 2™, AUTOSTRIPPER™, CLEAVEMETER™, CLEAVEMETER MP1™, CLEAVEMETER LDF, CLEAVEMETER 3D™, PROOFTESTER™ and PROOFTESTER 2™ are the trademarks or registered trademarks of Nyfors Teknologi AB. All other product or service names mentioned in a document on this server are trademarks of their respective companies.

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