When we first thought about establishing a business at Granberget, there was no industrial site, just land—and a great deal of work ahead. The area where the factory stands today had to be cleared and made suitable for construction. The ground needed levelling, the old fire pit had to be filled in, and we needed a proper space for the building, transport and the activities we envisaged.
That was where Leif and Johan Engkvist of Engkvist & Son entered the story. With excavators and trucks, they began to transform the site, bringing in load after load of fill. By the time the work was done, more than a hundred truckloads of material had arrived at Granberget. It is hard to imagine how much that is until you see the trucks coming. Slowly, the ground changed. Where there had been an unremarkable patch of land, the outline of something new began to emerge: a level area, an access road and a place where we could actually build.
Once the site was ready, the next stage could begin. We needed a building—not anything especially elaborate at first, just a functional industrial hall to house the machines, materials and production. But building at Granberget also means working with the conditions nature provides.
Tåsjö Rör & Bygg built it, with Anders Eriksson, Niklas Larsson and Martin Lundgren Nordseth doing much of the work. During construction, Granberget brought wind and the spring thaw. What looks simple on a drawing is not always simple when the ground, weather and season have their say. But piece by piece, the building rose, and by June it was complete.
It was a remarkable change. An idea that had largely consisted of plans, machines and ambitions suddenly had a physical home. Rickard Persson of Hotings El then made sure the building had the electrical supply and installations it needed to function as a workplace. When the lights came on and the machines could be connected, Granberget had a workshop.
But not everyone who mattered to the business at Granberget came here with an excavator, hammer or cable reel. One person has been involved in another way almost from the beginning: Ragnar Lif.
Ragnar formerly ran Lifs Såg in Tåsjö and has a knowledge of timber that is hard to acquire from books. It comes from an entire working life with forests, logs and sawn wood—from seeing how different trees grow, how timber behaves and what separates good raw material from the rest. As we ventured further into the world of wood, Ragnar became someone to ask, reason with and learn from. Perhaps even more importantly, he believed in what we were doing.
Starting a new business brings plenty of moments when you are not quite sure whether an idea will work. At those times, it means a great deal to have people around you who are curious, share their experience and encourage you to continue. Ragnar has been one of those people from the start. And if the conversation happens to move from timber quality, pine heartwood and sawing to where the trout are or which lure is working that day, his expertise hardly diminishes.
When we walk into the workshop today, it is easy to see the building, the machines and what they produce. It is harder to see all the people behind it: someone drove the first truckload of fill, someone dug and levelled the ground, someone raised the walls, someone ran the first cable, and someone shared a lifetime of knowledge about wood and told us that what we were trying to do was worth pursuing.
The workshop has changed greatly since then. Modern digital woodworking equipment has joined the first machines, and what began with firewood and fairly simple ideas has developed into Scandinavian Domes. But the place is the same, and beneath everything new remain the work, knowledge and commitment of the people who helped us build it.
During the summer of 2026, we selected three pilot partners from almost 100 applications from Sweden and abroad. The pilot year has now begun with installations in Hemavan, Åre and Borgafjäll.
Under sommaren 2026 valde vi ut tre pilotkunder bland närmare 100 intresseanmälningar från Sverige och andra länder. Pilotåret har nu inletts med installationer i Hemavan, Åre och Borgafjäll.
Tillsammans med våra pilotkunder kommer vi under det kommande året att vidareutveckla varje del av Scandinavian Domes – från materialval och hantverk till logistik, installation och långsiktig hållbarhet – inför den bredare marknadslanseringen 2027.