Husum is a

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situated in

Örnsköldsvik Municipality Örnsköldsvik Municipality (; ) is one of Sweden's 290 Municipalities of Sweden, municipalities, in Västernorrland County in northern Sweden. Its seat is in the town Örnsköldsvik. The present municipality was created in 1971 by the amalgamati ...

Västernorrland County Västernorrland County () is a county ('' län'') in the north of Sweden. It is bordered by the counties of Gävleborg, Jämtland, Västerbotten and the Gulf of Bothnia. The name ''Västernorrland'' means "Western Norrland", as it was in the ...

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with 1,647 inhabitants in 2010. It is located close to the northern entrance to the

High Coast The High Coast () is a part of the coast of Sweden on the Gulf of Bothnia, in the Ångermanland province of northeast Sweden, centered in the area of the municipalities of Kramfors, Härnösand and Örnsköldsvik. It is notable as an area for ...

. It has an active sports club in Husums IF (ice hockey, soccer, wrestling, ski jumping, cross-country skiing, orienteering, etc.), and a very active entrepreneurial spirit with many small local businesses, including a famous bakery. The ''Husum Big Band'', a wind instrument orchestra that dates back to the early 1900s, is still active - playing in concerts both locally and regionally. The ''Grundsunda Framtidsgrupp'' is an association formed in 1995 to promote the interests of the local inhabitants. The Husum

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 ...

and Sulphate pulp mill is the main employer in the area, and has been a significant influence on the municipality since it was founded in 1919 by

Mo och Domsjö AB Holmen AB is a Swedish company which bases its business in the forest industry and the pulp and paper industry. Holmen's main products are paperboard for consumer packaging and graphical applications. Printing paper for magazines, supplements, d ...

("Modo" for short, see also

Modo Hockey Modo Hockey (or MoDo with uppercase letters) is a professional ice hockey club in Örnsköldsvik, Sweden. The team currently plays in Sweden's second-tier league HockeyAllsvenskan after losing to HV71 after the play out following the 2024/25 se ...

). Metsä Board of

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(previously known as M-Real and Metsä-Serla) acquired the mill in 2000. Situated close to both the sea and the mountains, Husum has two rivers (Husån and Gideälven) flowing into the municipality. It was a perfect location for a sawmill, bringing timber to the mill by floating them downstream. This sawmill was the origin of the current paper and pulp mill. Husum is very close to the regional airport at Gideå, and a station for the new rail line Botniabanan has just been built close to the center of municipality.

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Husums IFM-real CorporationGrundsunda Framtidsgrupp Ulf Brandt
(Local knifemaker and scrimshander)
Grundsunda ParishGoogle Map of HusumÖrnsköldsvik Airport
Populated places in Örnsköldsvik Municipality Ångermanland {{Västernorrland-geo-stub