Constructor Group AS is a

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-registered international company, with headquarters in

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, that specialises in the manufacture and supply of

shelving A shelf ( : shelves) is a flat, horizontal plane used for items that are displayed or stored in a home, business, store, or elsewhere. It is raised off the floor and often anchored to a wall, supported on its shorter length sides by brackets ...

mobile shelving Mobile shelving, mobile aisle shelving, compactus, roller racking, or rolling stack, are terms applied to shelving or storage units fitted with wheeled traction systems. Units can be closely packed when access is not required, but can be readily ...

pallet racking Pallet rack is a material handling storage aid system designed to store materials on pallets (or “skids”). Although there are many varieties of pallet racking, all types allow for the storage of palletized materials in horizontal rows with mul ...

and similar storage systems, primarily for commercial use in offices,

factories A factory, manufacturing plant or a production plant is an industrial facility, often a complex consisting of several buildings filled with machinery, where workers manufacture items or operate machines which process each item into another. T ...

warehouse A warehouse is a building for storing goods. Warehouses are used by manufacturers, importers, exporters, wholesalers, transport businesses, customs, etc. They are usually large plain buildings in industrial parks on the outskirts of cities ...

museum A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. Many public museums make these ...

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and retail outlets.

Business

Constructor Group products are delivered through five international brands, plus one UK-based brand: *Constructor - a racking and shelving business which during the 1980s consolidated several Scandinavian manufacturers *Constructor Logistics - a developer of warehouse management software *

Dexion Dexion is a company name and brand particularly associated with the development of the "Dexion" slotted angle steel strip construction system, widely used since the 1950s for domestic and commercial shelving, storage racking, exhibition stands ...

- Invented in London by

Demetrius Comino Demetrius Comino OBE (4 September 1902 – 27 September 1988)Darbyshire, Anthony, and Duckworth, Eric (2011), ''Demetrius Comino: A life and legacy of achievement'', Comino Foundation. – (accessed: 22 February 2012) was an Australian engineer, ...

, Dexion

slotted angle Slotted angle (also sometimes referred to as slotted angle iron) is a system of reusable metal strips used to construct shelving, frames, work benches, equipment stands and other structures. The name derives, first, from the use of elongated slots ...

revolutionised

adjustable shelving Adjustable shelving allows more flexible use of shelves to hold items of value for storage, display or sale. Like fixed shelves, the horizontal planes are normally made of strong materials such as wood or steel (occasionally glass or other materia ...

and other forms of racking and storage from the late 1940s onwards *Kasten - originally a

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-based metalworking company established in 1886, which started manufacturing shelving in 1951 *PSS (a UK brand - acquired by Constructor Group in 2008) It is a member of the European Racking Federation.

History

The oldest part of Constructor Group can trace its origins back to 1856. The current company name was adopted in 1996 following the merger of

Electrolux Electrolux AB () is a Swedish multinational home appliance manufacturer, headquartered in Stockholm. It is consistently ranked the world's second largest appliance maker by units sold, after Whirlpool. Electrolux products sell under a variety ...

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subsidiary Electrolux Constructor with

Kasten Høvik Kasten is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Bob Kasten (born 1942), U.S. Republican politician * G. Randy Kasten, attorney and author *Jeremy Kasten, American filmmaker * Karl Kasten (1916–2010), painter-printmaker-educator in ...

. At this time, Constructor was owned by Norwegian industrial investment company

Aker RGI Aker ASA is a Norwegian industrial investment company with ownership interests concentrated in oil and gas, renewable energy and green technologies, maritime assets, marine biotechnology, and industrial software. The company is listed on Oslo St ...

who, in 2000, acquired the Dexion Group. In 2007, as part of the Aker Material Handling group of companies, it was sold to the Swedish finance investor

Altor Equity Partners Altor Equity Partners is a private equity firm focused on leveraged buyout and growth capital investments in Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway and the DACH region. History The firm, which is based in Stockholm, Sweden, was founded in 2003 by a te ...

. In 2018 Constructor Group AS was sold to Gonvarri Material Handling. In 2010, Constructor Group opened a £5.5m high-tech distribution hub at the former PSS site in

Swindon Swindon () is a town and unitary authority with Borough status in the United Kingdom, borough status in Wiltshire, England. As of the 2021 Census, the population of Swindon was 201,669, making it the largest town in the county. The Swindon un ...

in southern England. In June 2011, it launched an online shelving resource: ''shelving.co.uk''.New online source for shelving, ''The Grocery Trader'', 1 October 2011 - http://grocerytrader.co.uk/?p=11362 (accessed: 29 February 2012)

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Companies established in 1856 Manufacturing companies based in Oslo