What Josef Kihlberg does

Josef Kihlberg is a Swedish industrial manufacturer that produces, sells, and markets tools and staples used in transportation packaging. The company is headquartered in Hjo, Sweden, and has operated continuously since its founding in 1841, making it a nearly two-century-old specialist in its product category. Its output addresses the physical fastening and securing needs of goods in transit — staples, stapling tools, and related equipment consumed by packaging operations in industrial and logistics settings.

The company operates at a small scale, with between 11 and 50 employees, and is privately held. Its revenue model is consistent with a niche industrial manufacturer: it produces physical goods and sells them through traditional B2B channels. No pricing models, customer segment breakdowns, distribution channel detail, or named customer relationships are documented in the available source material, and the company's primary web presence (kihlberg.com) was captured only as a loader/verification page at the time of data collection, limiting visibility into its current product catalog and online commercial activity.

Substantive information beyond the firmographic profile — including management team composition, funding history, M&A activity, partnerships, certifications, geographic footprint, and recent strategic moves — is not present in the source data. As a result, this analysis is necessarily constrained to what the firmographic record supports. Josef Kihlberg should be understood as a long-established, small, privately-held Swedish manufacturer in a narrow industrial niche, with limited publicly observable information about its current operating trajectory.

Name

Josef Kihlberg

Website

https://kihlberg.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1841

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Industrial Packaging Tools

NAICS

Industrial Machinery and Equipment Merchant Wholesalers (42383), Industrial Supplies Merchant Wholesalers (42384)

SIC

Wholesale-Industrial Machinery & Equipment (5084)

akta.pro primary industry

Packaging & Bagging Equipment (Weighers, Baggers, Sealers) (AFAAAJAI)

akta.pro secondary industry

Crates & Cases (Wooden/Plastic/Metal, Export Cases) (IMALAFAG)

Keywords

• Industrial packaging tools
• Carton staplers
• Transportation staples
• Packaging equipment
• Manual stapling tools

Headquarters

HQ city

Hjo

HQ country

Sweden

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Operations, Personnel, Marketing or Sales

Core offering

Josef Kihlberg manufactures, sells, and markets tools and staples used for transportation packaging. The company supplies the industrial equipment and consumables (staples) required by businesses to secure, close, and prepare goods for shipment and transport.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Packaging Tools and Staples

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Market position

Competitive moat2 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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