The year is 1947. The war in Europe has been finished and a whole continent has to be rebuilt. Far away in the north of Sweden, in the small village of Sikfors, belonging to the municipality of Piteå, lives a farmer named Elof Stenvall. Elof is a simple man, living by his own standards of working out of his own conviction, to have the courage to walk his own path of life.
Elof has mouths to feed and the ongoing urbanization makes it difiicult to make a living on farming the land. The snow lies heavy on the trees as Elof sits down in his kitchen. “There has to be a way to live life and work in these surroundings where I have grown up”, he thinks for himself, “at a place where one can feel at HOME”.
When Elof is done thinking the entreprenur in him has seen the need of sledges for the timber transports in the woods. Together with his brother he then starts what will become the pride of the village, Stenvalls Trä AB.
