Granberget is where it is. That is one reason we love the place, but it also means that almost everything needed to build a business must be transported there—or away from it. Over the years, that has meant everything from logs and sawn timber to machines, vehicles and finished firewood. We discovered quite early that a business is built not only through what you do yourself. It is also built by people who answer the phone, find solutions when something goes wrong and sometimes do far more than the original request.
One of them is Håkan Berglund of Håkan Berglunds Åkeri. When we have found a machine or vehicle somewhere in Sweden, Håkan has often been the person who made sure it actually reached Granberget. Distances add up quickly when you equip a workshop with second-hand machines from across the country, and over the years he has collected equipment for us from many places. Emil Hansson of E.H Maskintjänst AB has likewise become someone we can call when a problem needs solving. Transport, groundwork and welding have all been part of it—whatever was needed at the time to keep the business moving forward.
But before anything can leave Granberget, we need raw materials to work with. The forest around us has been a natural starting point, although the journey from tree to usable timber has been a learning process of its own. Hansi Engström of Strömsunds Skogsentreprenad AB has not only supplied timber but helped us learn how to saw it. For someone arriving from a very different industry, that sort of practical knowledge is invaluable. You can read a great deal about wood, but standing beside someone who has done it before teaches you to see a log differently.
Raw materials have also come from places we could hardly have planned for at the outset. When Vattenfall cleared a corridor for a new power line, Håkan Lindh became an important contact and opened the door to Ansjö. Through Håkan Karlsson of Ansjö Skog & Markkonsult AB, we obtained birch from the power-line corridor, while Magnus Olofsson at the same company supplied birch from work along the Inland Railway. Göran Ellingsson of AB Högland Såg & Hyvleri has also supplied birch, and Tomas Mårtensson from the company has organised forestry evenings at Granberget. So the raw material has almost always brought more than firewood or timber: new contacts, more knowledge and a better understanding of the forestry industry we have gradually become part of.
In a business like this, things break, too. Machines that looked cheap and perfectly usable when we bought them can suddenly stop, and it is little comfort then that they were once an auction bargain. Kaj-Gunnar Lindh has become something of a mechanical magician for us. He understands machines, finds faults and gets things working again when they seem beyond repair. People like that seldom appear in a product brochure, but they can be indispensable on an ordinary Tuesday when production has stopped.
During our busiest period with Eldringen, the flow went the other way. Dry birch firewood had to leave Granberget and travel hundreds of kilometres south to Uppsala. Sune Winberg of Sune Winbergs Transport AB transported firewood from Granberget, while Johan and Lars Nilsson of Edeby Hus AB helped us with storage and unloading in Uppsala. From there, the next link in the chain took over. Janne Högström, owner of Express Service, and David Larsson, our regular contact there, helped make sure the firewood reached customers.
In retrospect, it may sound straightforward: raw material comes in, a product is made and transported to a warehouse, then delivered to the customer. In reality, each arrow in such a flowchart represents people, phone calls, trucks, forklifts, schedules that must align and problems to solve. Eldringen therefore gave us a practical education in logistics. We carry those lessons with us now that domes, timber components and far more complex deliveries are leaving Granberget.
Around all these practical relationships are people who helped us find the right contacts in the first place. Franz Bergstrand is one of them. As chairman of both Edsele Såg and Ansjö, and with a long life in and around forestry, he has been something of an elder statesman of the forest for us. He has offered important support, shared his experience and introduced us to people we would never have known when we began.
Perhaps that is one of the things we underestimated most at the outset. We thought we would need machines, raw materials, a building and a good idea. All of that was true. But we also needed a network of people who knew things we did not and were willing to help when we asked.
Scandinavian Domes looks different today from the business we ran in the early firewood years. The machines are more modern, the precision higher and the products entirely different. But our need for the people around us has not diminished. Someone still has to find the raw materials; someone has to drive, load, unload, repair and solve the unexpected.
These are the people who keep everything moving. Sometimes quite literally.
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.