Company
with tradition

History of the company’s growth in Sweden

Green light for Malte and Anna
In 1938, the company W. Hedlund och Co, which was later to become the joint stock company Genarps Ladfabrik. At the time, it produced vegetable boxes for local vegetable growers. We continue to produce vegetable and fruit crates, but new production and recovery of nearly one million pallets per year is now dominant. The other major part of the business is plywood and particleboard crates. The range also includes wooden cages, extensions and special pallets. We also supply store equipment – all made of wood, of course – as well as gift packaging and wood fiber for wine crates and turkey nests.

Malte Persson and his wife Anna’s ideas on how to run the business are still alive.
The most important thing for us is our employees and customers. The most important thing is to deliver what you need – preferably in a better way, or with a more interesting solution than you expected. Deliveries on time and at the right price and quality are a matter of course.

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Our
history

Calendar of GLF events – Pallets and packaging for three generations

  • 1938

    W. Hedlund & Co. started production of vegetable boxes in Genarp

  • 1941

    Malte Persson starts work as a dispatcher in a company

  • 1960

    Malte and Anna Persson establish AB Genarps Ladfabrik

  • 1964

    Kent Persson (Malte's son) starts a job at a company

  • 1990

    Johan Wester (Kent's son) starts a job at a company

  • 2000

    Kent Persson and Johan Wester buy the company from the Persson family

  • 2001

    A new factory is built in Genarp

  • 2002

    AB Genarps Ladfabrik, after 64 years, moves from old premises to new ones

  • 2002

    We are named company of the year in Lund municipality

  • 2004

    ISO environmental and quality certification

  • 2005

    GLF Poland branch in Slupsk (Poland) is opened

  • 2007

    Purchase of Gyllebo Träemballage AB in Gärsnäs

  • 2012

    GLF branch in Mielec opens

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In order to be able to offer our customers prices that are cost-effective for often expensive transportation services, we have come to the conclusion that we cannot be present in just one place. We need to get closer to our customers

Thanks to the strategic location of our warehouses, we help our customers maintain the same high quality of cargo boxes, regardless of the country in which they were manufactured. When a company takes over a plant and starts operations in a new location on the continent, we are able to make deliveries throughout Europe.

Our pallets are now not only in Sweden, but we also sell them to Denmark, Norway, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, France, Spain, Estonia, Lithuania, Austria.

Projects
UE

Project title: “Implementation of product innovation by GLF Polska Mielec Sp. z o.o.”

Project description: The project includes the purchase, delivery and installation of: a) A line for nailing tops and sides of boxes; b) A line for cross-cutting; c) A welding station with instrumentation. The purchased fixed assets will be used during the production process of the innovative product implemented under the project.

Purpose of the project: To increase the competitiveness of GLF company by implementing into production a new product – environmentally friendly reusable transport packaging, created within the framework of conducted R&D works. Thanks to the implementation of the investment, the Applicant’s offer will become more competitive, which will allow it to attract new customers, as well as ensure a stable and permanent position in the market.

Planned effects: Launch of a new product in the form of an environmentally friendly reusable transport packaging, developed as part of the research and development work carried out.

Project value: 3 067 620,00 PLN

Contribution of European Funds: 1 371 700,00 PLN

Project “Implementation of product innovation by GLF Polska Mielec Sp. z o.o.” (funding agreement no. RPPK.01.04.01-18-0157/20-00), is implemented under the Subcarpathian Operational Program 2014-2020, under Priority Axis I Competitive and Innovative Economy, Measure 1.4 Support for SMEs, Sub-measure 1.4.1 Direct Subsidies.

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