We will write about the market of heavy vehicles, about our development projects and our long history since 1900 when the master smith Sars Erik Petterson started our company. Please let us know if there is anything you want to know and read about. Send me an e-mail with your wishes and opinions. I hope you will have a nice reading! Mats Elfsberg CEO Sepson mats.elfsberg@sepson.se

Last year was the best year in Sepson’s history with higher volumes and with a number of new international customers. The revenue increased with 58 % compared with 2010. The outlook for 2012 looks very good where the order backlog in January already is 40 % of last year’s billing. Thanks for your confidence!

In the end of March we will open our new website. Please visit it and find out all information about out world class winches, technical specifications and all market activities we are part in. Make it a habit to visit us often and make sure not to miss anything in the world of Sepson.

As usual Sepson participated at the world’s largest display of land, sea and air applications of defense and security products and technologies. Our world class winches received considerable interest and as usual we met a lot of old and new friends. This year’s DSEi, at ExCeL in the London’s Royal Docks, had 28.440 visitors, 1.391 exhibiting companies representing 46 countries and included 30 national pavilions making this the largest DSEi ever. DSEi 2013, will take place from 10 to 13 September, 2013. To learn more, please visit www.dsei.co.uk.

At Eurosatory 2012 we will present a new external constant pull force device. This means that all Sepson winches can be upgraded to Forcematic winches – With constant pull force. The winches have the same maximum traction on all of the rope layers. Another new feature we will present on the fair is that the Sepson’s well-known 2-speed solution for our larger winches now will be available for all our winches. This increases the safety of salvage as slack in the rope immediately is adjusted by the winch. When the load is small the line speed is high. When the load increases, the line speed is reduced by 50-70% making the winching more secure. At the Eurosatory 2012, a special emphasis will be on Homeland Security in response to evolving markets and requirements for equipment for land forces, homeland security agencies. More than 30 % of this year’s fair will be in this sector. Eurosatory is the only exhibition that is dedicated 100 % to land security. Sepson can hardly wait to participate at the fair’s five days in the exhibition center at Paris Nord Villepinte, close to the airport Roissy Charles de Gaulle. Welcome to visit us in stand No D200, Hall 6, Swedish Pavilion. Bienvenue à Paris!

The master smith Sars Erik Petterson founded Sepson in 1900 in Dalarna in the middle of Sweden to make tools and handling equipment for the surrounding forestry industry, where pulling and lifting are key activities. A couple of miles from Sars Erik’s smithy lived the artist Anders Zorn (1860 – 1920). He was born in Yvraden in the parish of Mora, Dalarna, and was raised on his grandparents’ farm. He was one of Sweden’s foremost artists who obtained international success as a painter, sculptor and printmaker in etching. The etching “Master Smith” was created in 1907 and shows very well how it looked when the black smith in Dalarna did his hard work. Sars Erik was known to be strong as an ox and very accurate in his work – A heritage that we are working every day to keep up.