Edstroms
Edströms is a Swedish industrial distributor founded in 1948 that sells tools, consumables, and CNC machinery from premium represented brands to manufacturers, fabrication shops, contractors, and schools across Sweden and Denmark.
- Company typePrivate
- Founded1948
- HeadquartersJönköping, Sweden
- Headcount51–100
- GTM typeB2B
- OfferingHardware or Manufacturing
What Edstroms does
Edströms is a privately held Swedish industrial distributor founded in 1948 and headquartered in Jönköping, Sweden, operating across two main divisions: Edströms Verktyg AB for tools and consumables, and Edströms Maskin AB for industrial machinery, with a Danish subsidiary (Edströms Værktøjsmaskiner ApS) serving the broader Scandinavian market. The tools division distributes a comprehensive catalog including cutting tools, hand tools, measuring instruments, power tools, fasteners, abrasives, welding equipment, pneumatics, compressed air systems, and workplace consumables. The machinery division represents premium international brands as exclusive Scandinavian agent, including Haas Automation (CNC lathes and machining centers), Kitamura, Tornos (automatic and multi-spindle lathes), Desktop Metal (3D metal printers), BLM Group (tube lasers and benders), Chevalier, DoAll (band saws), Shimada, Vimercati (press brakes and shears), Lagun, and Cejn. With over 75 years of operating history, Edströms has built an installed base that includes more than 500 Chevalier machines in Sweden alone.
The business operates through three primary distribution channels: a physical retail store in Jönköping, a B2B e-commerce webshop for registered business customers, and a regional field sales force with named brand-dedicated account managers across Sweden and Denmark. Revenue is generated through one-time sales of machinery and tools/consumables, supplemented by professional services including cutting tool service, sheet metal service, fault reporting, spare parts, and longer-term service agreements. Pricing is not publicly disclosed and is tailored to registered B2B accounts, consistent with the industrial distribution peer set.
Edströms serves four primary customer segments: industrial manufacturing companies in metalworking, automotive, and aerospace; sheet metal and fabrication shops; construction and trades; and educational institutions. The company has invested in extending beyond pure distribution by adding automation solutions and robot integration services, operator training programs, and representation in additive manufacturing via Desktop Metal. The corporate structure operates under the Edströmsgruppen umbrella, and the company remains family-controlled with no disclosed institutional investor involvement or external funding rounds.
Edstroms firmographics
Firmographics- Name
- Edstroms
- Legal name
- Edströms Verktyg AB
- Website
- https://edstroms.com
- Company type
- Private
- Founded year
- 1948
- Operating status
- Operating
- Headcount range
- 51–100 employees
- Short description
- Edströms is a Swedish industrial distributor founded in 1948 that sells tools, consumables, and CNC machinery from premium represented brands to manufacturers, fabrication shops, contractors, and schools across Sweden and Denmark.
- Ownership category
- akta.pro rank
Where Edstroms is headquartered
LocationHeadquarters
- HQ city
- Jönköping
- HQ country
- Sweden
- HQ region
- Europe
Offices2 records
Markets served
Edstroms business model
Business model- GTM type
- B2B
- Offering type
- Hardware or Manufacturing
- Cost components
- Supply Chain, Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D
Revenue model
- Tools and consumables sales: Edströms generates revenue through the sale of industrial tools, hand tools, power tools, safety equipment, fasteners, abrasives, welding equipment, pneumatics, and other consumables to industrial and construction customers. They operate a B2B web shop and physical store.
- Industrial machinery sales: Sale of metalworking machinery including CNC machining centers, lathes, milling machines, grinding machines, saws, press brakes, tube lasers, and 3D metal printers from represented brands such as Haas, Kitamura, Tornos, Chevalier, DoAll, Shimada, Vimercati, Lagun, BLM Group, and Desktop Metal.
- Service and support: Service offerings including machine service (cutting tools service, sheet metal service), fault reporting, spare parts, and service agreements for industrial machinery.
Pricing tiers
| Model | Billing | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Other | Pay-as-you-go | B2B account pricing - Login required for customer-specific pricing |
Go-to-market motion1 record
Distribution channels4 records
Marketing channels6 records
Edstroms product offering
Product offeringCore offering
Edströms is a Swedish industrial distributor selling metalworking machinery, CNC machining centers, cutting tools, hand tools, measuring instruments, welding equipment, and pneumatic and compressed air products to industrial B2B customers. The company also represents premium international machine brands (Haas, Kitamura, Tornos, Desktop Metal, BLM Group, Chevalier, DoAll, Shimada, Vimercati, Lagun) under exclusive Scandinavian agency rights, and provides related services including spare parts, technical support, automation/robot integration, and operator training.
Product overview
Edstroms is a comprehensive industrial tools and machinery distributor offering a unified platform combining tools, machines, services, and automation solutions. The core product portfolio includes Tools (Verktyg) covering hand tools, cutting tools, holding tools, measuring tools, power tools, fasteners, abrasives, adhesives, welding equipment, pneumatics, compressed air equipment, and workplace supplies; and Machines (Maskin) encompassing CNC lathes, machining centers (vertical/horizontal/5-axis), 3D metal printers, grinding machines, tube lasers, band saws, and sheet metal working equipment. Represented machine brands include Haas Automation, Kitamura, Tornos, Desktop Metal, BLM Group (Adige), Lagun, Chevalier, DoAll, Shimada, and Vimercati. Services include technical support, spare parts, service agreements, training, and automation solutions. The company operates across Sweden and Denmark with locations in Jönköping and Denmark.
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Products and services
- Industrial Tools (Verktyg) Comprehensive range of industrial tools including cutting tools, holding tools, hand tools, measuring tools, power tools, fasteners, abrasives, adhesives, welding equipment, pneumatics, compressed air equipment, building materials, electrical/lighting products, chemical products, workplace equipment, lifting/transport equipment, and cleaning supplies. Sold through B2B web shop and physical store to industrial and construction customers.
- Industrial Machinery (Maskin) Metalworking machinery including CNC lathes, vertical/horizontal/5-axis machining centers, 3D metal printers, rotary tables, gantry mills, grinding machines, tube lasers, pipe benders, band saws, cutting machines, press brakes, and sheet metal working equipment. Sold to industrial manufacturing and fabrication customers across Scandinavia.
- Service and Support Technical services including cutting tool service, sheet metal service, fault reporting, spare parts supply, and service agreements for industrial machinery purchased from Edströms.
- Automation Solutions Machine automation solutions and robot integration services for manufacturing operations involving CNC machinery and related equipment.
- Training (Utbildningar) Education and training services for machine operators and technicians on CNC machines and other industrial equipment sold by Edströms.
Companies that use Edstroms
Customer profileSegments4 records
Ideal customer profiles4 records
Edstroms technology and API
TechnologyTechnology focussed No
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- Has API
- No
- API docs
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Edstroms partnerships and signals
Strategic signalPartnerships
Eleven partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.
- Haas AutomationcoreEdströms is the Scandinavian representative for Haas Automation, offering Haas CNC lathes, vertical machining centers, horizontal machining centers, 5-axis machines, and rotary tables. Haas maintains a central warehouse in Antwerp enabling often immediate delivery.
- KitamuracoreEdströms represents Kitamura for vertical machining centers, horizontal machining centers, 5-axis machines, and portal milling machines in Scandinavia.
- TornoscoreEdströms is the Scandinavian agent for Tornos automatic lathes and multi-spindle machines.
- Desktop MetalcoreEdströms offers Desktop Metal 3D metal printers, including Studio System 2 and Shop System printers for metal additive manufacturing.
- BLM Group (Adige)coreEdströms represents BLM Group for tube lasers, tube bending, end forming, saw blade cutting, and wire bending machines.
- ChevaliercoreChevalier was Edströms' first agency and represents a long-standing partnership. Edströms offers Chevalier grinding machines, CNC lathes, milling machines, and machining centers. Over 500 Chevalier machines are installed in Sweden.
- DoAllcoreEdströms offers DoAll band saws and saw blade cutting machines, serving as their Scandinavian representative. DoAll invented the world's first metal-cutting band saw in 1933.
- ShimadacoreEdströms holds the Scandinavian agency for Shimada, offering single-spindle, 2-spindle, 4-spindle, 6-spindle, and 8-spindle lathes for high-volume production.
- VimercaticoreEdströms represents Vimercati for CNC press brakes and shears. Vimercati is an Italian manufacturer founded in 1973, now run by four brothers, specializing in high-tech customized solutions.
- LaguncoreEdströms offers Lagun bed mills and gantry machines for large components, long workpieces, and demanding machining environments. Lagun was founded in 1954 and is part of Maher Holding Group.
- CejnminorEdströms distributes Cejn quick couplings and pressure air solutions including Series 320, 220, and 410 couplings, air hoses, blow guns, and hose reels.
Scale indicators1 record
Recent moves6 records
Expansion highlights6 records
Edstroms competitors and assessment
Company assessmentBroad incumbents
- Würth Group: Global market leader in fasteners, tools and industrial supplies with a direct-sales model across Europe. Much larger and broader than Edströms, but overlapping in industrial consumables and workshop supply distribution.
- Grainger: US-headquartered large industrial MRO distributor with an extensive catalogue and omnichannel model. Comparable as a broad-line industrial supply distributor to B2B manufacturing customers, though considerably larger and primarily North American.
- Sandvik: Swedish industrial group with major cutting tools and metalworking divisions serving the same Nordic manufacturing customers as Edströms, though as a manufacturer rather than a multi-brand distributor.
- MSC Industrial: Large US-focused metalworking and MRO distributor with a broad catalogue of cutting tools, machinery and consumables. Comparable as a large-scale industrial distributor serving manufacturing customers, though with much greater scale and a different geographic focus.
Direct peers
- Yamazen: Japanese machine tool and industrial equipment distributor with exclusive agency rights for global CNC and sheet metal machinery brands. Highly comparable business model as a regional premium-brand machinery distributor with tooling and service attach.
- Hoffmann Group: Germany-headquartered industrial tools, metrology, and MRO distributor with a curated premium-brand portfolio and own manufacturing. Closest like-for-like European peer to Edströms' one-stop-shop model combining branded tools, machinery and service.
Emerging players
- Seco Tools: Sweden-based cutting tools manufacturer owned by Sandvik, selling directly and via distributors to metalworking customers. Comparable as a Nordic cutting tools specialist whose products overlap with Edströms' cutting tools category.
- Walter Tools: German precision cutting tools manufacturer (part of Walter Group / Sandvik) serving European metalworking manufacturers. Comparable as a branded cutting tools supplier whose products are typically distributed through industrial tool resellers like Edströms.
Others
- Trumpf: German machine tool and laser manufacturer for sheet metal fabrication. Not a direct competitor but a principal supplier category that competes for similar Nordic fabrication-shop capex as the brands Edströms represents (e.g., Vimercati, BLM).
- Atlas Copco: Swedish industrial group with compressor, vacuum and industrial tool businesses serving Nordic manufacturers. Adjacent industrial peer with overlapping customer base in Swedish manufacturing, though operating as a manufacturer rather than a multi-brand distributor.
Market position
Strengths4 records
Weaknesses4 records
Competitive moat4 records
Key risks5 records
Key highlights6 records
Customer concentration
Edstroms social profiles
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Edstroms leadership team
Management profileNumber of profiles
Profiles5 records
Edstroms subsidiaries and ownership
Company hierarchySubsidiaries2 records
Edstroms funding detail
Funding detailFunding overview
Funding rounds
Investors
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Edstroms M&A and investment
M&A and investmentM&A
Investments
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Frequently asked questions about Edstroms
What does Edstroms do?
Edströms is a Swedish industrial distributor selling metalworking machinery, CNC machining centers, cutting tools, hand tools, measuring instruments, welding equipment, and pneumatic and compressed air products to industrial B2B customers. The company also represents premium international machine brands (Haas, Kitamura, Tornos, Desktop Metal, BLM Group, Chevalier, DoAll, Shimada, Vimercati, Lagun) under exclusive Scandinavian agency rights, and provides related services including spare parts, technical support, automation/robot integration, and operator training.
Is Edstroms a public or private company?
Edstroms is a private company. It is classified as founder individual operated bootstrapped and is currently operating.
When was Edstroms founded?
Edstroms was founded in 1948. It employs 51 to 100 people.
Where is Edstroms based?
Edstroms is headquartered in Jönköping, Sweden, in the Europe region.
How does Edstroms make money?
Three revenue lines are on record. Tools and consumables sales are the primary driver. The others are industrial machinery sales and service and support.
Who are Edstroms's main competitors?
Broad incumbents on record are Würth Group, Grainger, Sandvik and MSC Industrial. Direct peers are Yamazen and Hoffmann Group. Emerging players are Seco Tools and Walter Tools. Others are Trumpf and Atlas Copco.
Does Edstroms have an API?
No public API is recorded for Edstroms.