In the day-to-day life of a professional craftsman, there are three vital sources of energy: expertise, professional pride and the right tools. It is absolutely essential that the tools always work, even when the job is difficult, bordering on impossible.Since 1886, Bahco Group has been developing and marketing professional tools for use in a wide range of trades the world over. This is our contribution to efficiency and job satisfaction.
In 1862 Goran Fredrik Goransson founded Hogbo Stal & Jernwerks AB, Sweden, producing high quality steel using the Bessemer Process. From this beginning he then developed into producing saw blades, starting in 1886. Saws that were of the same high quality as the steel they were made from and performed to the expectation of their users. As today the saws and all other tools were marked with the "Fish & Hook" brand as a symbol for the highest quality.
The very same year, 1886, Johan Petter Johansson established his company Enkopings Mekaniska Verkstad in Enkoping Sweden. J P Johansson was both a clever and creative craftsman, and in 1888 he got his first patent for "The Iron hand" today known as the pipe wrench. J P Johansson idea was to replace fixed spanners with a single tool able, as the human hand, to fit different sizes of bolts and nuts.
These were the beginnings of product innovation and design that still prevail within the company today. In 1891 his next patent was the very first adjustable spanner. This was the basis for the adjustable wrench, as we know it. A Swedish invention found all over the world that we have produced in more than 100 million examples - so far!
Before he died in 1943 J. P. Johansson held no less than 118 patents for innovative products.
In 1890 Berndt August Hjorth acquired the sales and marketing rights for products from Enkopings Mekaniska Verkstad. His entrepreneurial skills ensured that the company became more than just a local Swedish success and laid the basis for the international company that Bahco Group is today. Combining global products with local market knowledge and expertise so that users everywhere find the product they need to do the best possible job.
