Lindab

Lindab is a Swedish commercial group supplying products and systems for the building industry. Its roots go back to a small sheet-metal workshop established in Lidhult, Sweden, in 1956. The business was registered as a company in 1959 in Grevie, on the Bjäre peninsula, under the name AB Lidhults Plåtsindustri. The company later took the name Lindab. Its history reflects a development from sheet-metal fabrication into a broader building-products business. The company’s activities described in the supplied evidence span ventilation, building components and building systems. Its ventilation offering includes air ducts and components, air distribution products, air-water systems for climate-control and ventilation installations, and software for planning and calculating ventilation systems. Lindab also provides solutions intended to support healthy indoor environments and energy-efficient ventilation. In Germany, its website presents products for smoke extraction and fire protection, including ducts and fire dampers designed to close ventilation ducts in a fire and limit the spread of fire and smoke between compartments. The building-components business covers thin-sheet components and steel profiles. The group’s building-systems activity, described under the Astron name in the supplied Wikipedia entry, plans, manufactures and sells steel buildings for uses such as storage, production and offices, with structural, roof and wall systems and planning support. Lindab’s historical routes to market include its own branches, dealers and wholesalers for commercial construction products, and DIY stores for residential products; these descriptions come from the supplied Wikipedia entry and should not be taken as a current channel breakdown. Lindab presents itself as a European leader in ventilation technology and emphasizes product quality, ease of installation, healthy indoor climate and reduced environmental impact. The company’s sustainability strategy is described as addressing healthier buildings, lowering customers’ environmental impact and developing a sustainably oriented company. The supplied sources identify Lindab as a public company and report a Stockholm-market listing under ticker LIAB, but do not establish current ownership, headquarters details, present executive leadership or a full current geographic footprint. Its German website is active and presents the company’s products and services to that market.

Lindab’s origins are traced by its German corporate-history page to a small sheet-metal workshop founded in Lidhult, Sweden, in 1956. The operation subsequently moved to Grevie on the Bjäre peninsula. In 1959, AB Lidhults Plåtsindustri was registered there as a company; the page names Lage Lind and Valter Persson as founders. Lindab’s first products included aluminium strips for Eternit sheets and window flashing. The company broadened its product range during the 1960s. In 1962, production of roof gutters and pipes was expanded, and plans for a new factory began. The factory at Ängelholmsvägen on the Bjäre peninsula opened in 1964, when the company introduced a gutter bracket. Lindab’s history page says it was then the only supplier in Sweden able to provide a complete roof-drainage programme. In 1965, it added a ventilation business area and launched spiral-seam ducting. In 1969, AB Lidhults Plåtindustri changed its name to Lindab; the same history entry says Lage Lind became sole owner. These early developments show the company moving from sheet-metal products for roofs and buildings into ventilation, which became a major part of its later identity. Its current German website describes Lindab as a European leader in ventilation technology and presents solutions for energy-efficient ventilation and healthy indoor climates. Its product pages also show a range of smoke-extraction and fire-protection products, including single- and multi-compartment smoke-extraction ducts and round or rectangular fire dampers. The supplied German-language Wikipedia entry describes three business areas: Ventilation; Building Components, which deals in thin-sheet components and steel profiles; and Buildings, which plans, manufactures and sells steel buildings under the Astron name. It characterizes Astron systems as serving storage, production and office uses and comprising structural, roof and wall systems, as well as planning support. The same entry describes routes to market through branches, dealers, wholesalers and DIY stores, depending on product and customer segment; this is historical or general source information, not a verified current channel map. The supplied Wikipedia entry reports that Lindab was listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange in 1984 and on the Danish Stock Exchange in 1992, and identifies its Stockholm listing as Nasdaq OMX Nordic Exchange, Mid Cap, ticker LIAB. These dates and listing details are reproduced as claims from that entry; the supplied material does not establish the present exchange segment or current ownership. Lindab’s German website currently describes sustainability priorities as creating healthy buildings, reducing customers’ environmental impact and advancing the company as a sustainable business. The evidence provided does not document later corporate transactions, current leadership, or further dated corporate milestones.

• 1992

  Listed on the Danish Stock Exchange, according to the supplied German Wikipedia entry

• 1984

  Listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange, according to the supplied German Wikipedia entry

• 1969

  The company changes its name to Lindab

• 1965

  The ventilation business begins and spiral-seam ducting launches

• 1964

  A new factory opens and a gutter bracket is introduced

• 1962

  Production of roof gutters and pipes is expanded

• 1959

  AB Lidhults Plåtsindustri is registered in Grevie

• 1956

  A small sheet-metal workshop is established in Lidhult, Sweden

A European building-products group centered on ventilation technology and building systems, emphasizing efficient installation, healthy indoor climates and reduced environmental impact.

• Ventilation systems

  Air ducts and components, air distribution products, air-water systems and software for planning and calculating ventilation systems.

• Smoke-extraction and fire-protection products

  Single- and multi-compartment smoke-extraction ducts, as well as round and rectangular fire dampers.

• Building components

  Thin-sheet components and steel profiles, as described in the supplied German Wikipedia entry.

• Astron building systems

  Steel buildings for storage, production and office uses, with structural, roof and wall systems and planning support, according to the supplied German Wikipedia entry.

1. 1Willkommen bei Lindab Deutschlandlindab.de
2. 2Entrauchung & Brandschutzlindab.de
3. 3Geschichtelindab.de
4. 4Brandschutzklappenlindab.de
5. 5Lindabde.wikipedia.org
6. 6Lindabwikidata.org
7. 7Lindab acquires the Swedish roof manufacturer Profilplåtprnewswire.co.uk