Since the 1950s Rekordverken has been delivering straw choppers to fit most brands of combine harvesters around the world.
The company offers advanced technology for chopping and spreading of straw and chaff. An intense collaboration with combine harvesting manufacturers, farmers, and institutions ensures a continuous product development.
From a simple village forge to a world-leading supplier for crop residue management. Here follows a short exposé of Rekordverken’s 125-year history.
The story of Rekordverken begins in 1897. The farmer’s son Albin Grönberg, at the time only 18 years old, built a village forge in Öttum, in the middle of Västgötland’s heartland of agriculture and industry – at the same place where the head office remains today. The business initially consisted mostly of blacksmithing and repairs, directly linked to the mechanization of agriculture.
The company’s first epoch change takes place during the mid-1930s. The combine is now making its way into the Swedish agricultural industry, and as a result there is a need for straw choppers – a need that will soon prove lucrative for the company that has just changed its name to Rekordverken – Grönbergs Gjuteri & Kvarnfabrik.
During the 1950s, the foundation was laid for Rekordverken’s noble brand: crop residue management. At the beginning of the decade, the first straw choppers for mounting on combines are manufactured, and just a few years later the Rekord Clipper straw chopper dominates both the product portfolio and the market.
Since then, Rekordverken has been synonymous with crop residue management. Even today, development and manufacturing of straw choppers and chaff spreader solutions takes place in Öttum in Västra Götaland, for combines all over the world. Ownership has changed since 1897, but the Grönberg DNA is still there. In total, the Grönberg family ran the business for 86 years, over three generations.
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Today, Rekordverken is one of the cornerstones of the business group Farbolagen, run by Erik Hellsvik son of Rekordverken’s former owner Sven Johan Persson. Among the other companies in the group, another example of successful Swedish agricultural technology should be mentioned; AB Akronmaskiner.
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