AFRY AB (publ) is a Swedish-Finnish supplier of engineering, design, and advisory services, with a global reach. The company originates from Sweden and it was formed in 1895 under the name of “The Southern Swedish Steam Generator Association” (in Swedish: Södra Sveriges Ångpanneförening). AFRY has today 17,000 experts in infrastructure, industry, energy and digitalisation all around the world.
History
''Södra Sveriges Ångpanneförening'' ("The Southern Swedish Steam Generator Association") was founded in
Malmö
Malmö (, ; da, Malmø ) is the largest city in the Swedish county (län) of Scania (Skåne). It is the third-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm and Gothenburg, and the sixth-largest city in the Nordic region, with a municipal populat ...
on 23 February 1895. It was the first Swedish steam-pipe association to take care of the interests of the owners of steam generators and other pressure vessels. The main task was to perform regular inspections on the safety of steam boilers to help prevent industrial accidents."The Central and Northern Swedish Steam Generator Association" was formed in
Stockholm
Stockholm () is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in Sweden by population, largest city of Sweden as well as the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, largest urban area in Scandinavia. Approximately 980,000 people liv ...
in 1897, and the inspectors began to conduct consultancy services. In 1910, both associations expanded their business to include Electrical engineering. The two associations merged in 1964 under the name Ångpanneföreningen (ÅF), covering the whole of Sweden as a market.
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On 5 May 2008, the Ångpanneföreningen changed its name to ÅF. In 2010, the operations of ÅF-Kontroll were sold to Dekra, DEKRA in a step to realign ÅF as Europe's leading engineering and consulting company. In 2019, ÅF acquires the Finnish company Pöyry PLC and are now one combined company and brand– AFRY. On December 10, 2018, ÅF and Pöyry announced a merger to form a leading European engineering and consulting services company.
Divisions
The AFRY Group is divided into six divisions:
# AFRY Energy
# AFRY Industrial and Digital Solutions
# AFRY Infrastructure
# AFRY Process Industries
# AFRY Management Consulting
# AFRY X(2021)
CEOs
* 1 April 2017–present: Jonas Gustavsson.
Major Projects
* The world's longest traffic tunnel, th
Gotthard Base Tunnel
in Switzerland
* The world's largest combined power and desalination plant, Ras Al-Khair Power and Desalination Plant, Ras al-Khair in Saudi Arabia
* The first hydropower dam on the lower Mekong river, the Xayaburi Dam
The Xayaburi Dam is a run-of-river hydroelectric dam on the Lower Mekong River, approximately east of Sainyabuli (Xayaburi) town in northern Laos. Commercial operation of the dam started in October 2019. The main purpose of the dam is to produce ...
in Laos
* The largest and most energy efficient waste-to-energy plant in Finland
Vantaa Energy
Finland
* One of the world's most advanced sewage systems
Emscher
Germany
* One of the world's largest offshore wind farms, Lillgrund Wind Farm
Lillgrund Wind Farm is located about 10 km off the coast of southern Sweden, just south of the Öresund Bridge, where average wind speeds are . With 48 wind turbines ( Siemens SWT-2.3-93) and a capacity of 110 megawatts (MW), Lill ...
, Sweden
* One of the largest single operatin
solar power plants
in Vietnam, Southeast Asia
* Th
East Link high speed rail project
in Sweden.
References
Engineering consulting firms
Companies based in Solna Municipality
Consulting firms established in 1895
Companies listed on Nasdaq Stockholm
Technology companies established in 1895
Swedish companies established in 1895
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