Hyltebruk () is a

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and the seat of

Hylte Municipality Hylte Municipality (''Hylte kommun'') is the only inland municipality of Halland County in southwest Sweden. The industrial town Hyltebruk is the seat of the municipality. The first Hylte Municipality was created in 1952 through the amalgamation ...

Halland County Halland County ( sv, Hallands län, link=no, ) is a county ('' län'') on the western coast of Sweden. It corresponds roughly to the cultural and historical province of Halland. The capital is Halmstad. It borders the counties of Västra Göta ...

Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is the Kingdom of SwedenUNGEGN World Geographical Names, Sweden./ref> is a Nordic country located on ...

with 3,716 inhabitants in 2010. The town grew up around the

paper mill A paper mill is a factory devoted to making paper from vegetable fibres such as wood pulp, old rags, and other ingredients. Prior to the invention and adoption of the Fourdrinier machine and other types of paper machine that use an endless belt, ...

owned by ''Hylte Bruks AB'', which started its operation in 1907. A railway was built in 1909 connecting it with Torup on the

Halmstad Halmstad () is a port, university, industrial and recreational city A city is a human settlement of notable size.Goodall, B. (1987) ''The Penguin Dictionary of Human Geography''. London: Penguin.Kuper, A. and Kuper, J., eds (1996) ''The Socia ...

Nässjö Nässjö () is a Urban areas in Sweden, locality and the seat of Nässjö Municipality, Jönköping County, Sweden with 16,678 inhabitants in 2010. History For many years, Nässjö was a rural village with agriculture as the dominant occupation. ...

line. The paper mill today has nearly 1,000 employees and is one of the greatest manufacturers of

newsprint Newsprint is a low-cost, non-archival paper consisting mainly of wood pulp and most commonly used to print newspapers and other publications and advertising material. Invented in 1844 by Charles Fenerty of Nova Scotia, Canada, it usually has an ...

in the world.http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3636/is_199610/ai_n8751922 In the 20th century the town was popular due to the farming it had produced that had led to increased tourist sites and also now has opened several different hotels in its regions to attract more tourists in the spring and summer seasons.

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Hylte Municipality
* http://www.virtualtourist.com/travel/Europe/Sweden/Hallands_Laen/Hyltebruk-191606/TravelGuide-Hyltebruk.html {{authority control Populated places in Hylte Municipality Municipal seats of Halland County Swedish municipal seats Finnveden