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The world’s oldest limited company is Swedish - Stora Kopparbergs Bergslags AB
The world’s oldest limited company, Stora Kopparbergs Bergslags AB, owned and operated Falu Mine for hundreds of years. The company, which today is called Stora Enso, together with Falu municipality and Investor AB formed the foundation that owns and operates Falu Mine since 1999. The Stora Kopparberget foundation also owns industrial historical buildings in Falun and surrounding towns such as Åg, Vintjärn, Svartnäs and Korsån.
Copper mining in Falu mine has been documented since 1288 but is older. At the beginning of the 19th century, they started with iron production, an activity that grew in scope after Domnarvets Jernverk was established in the 1870s. The forest industrial era started in the 1850s with sawmill operations for export. After steel production was discontinued in connection with the steel crisis of the 1970s, the energy and forest industrial parts became Stora’s core area.
In connection with the acquisition of the Billerud Group in 1984, the company name was changed from Stora Kopparbergs Bergslags Aktiebolag to STORA Aktiebolag.
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