The story of Moelven

In the first years after starting up in 1899, Moelven produced carpentry and interior products from wood. However, as early as 1904 the business changed course to producing wagon wheels dipped in boiling oil.

Moelven has produced many things over the years, including chairs.

From wagon wheels, production evolved to horse carriages.

Buildings on wheels were initially produced in the 1950s. Outside of Moelven the structures were called the “Moelven barracks.”

Trailers in various configurations were a large part of Moelven’s production in the 1960s.

Production of section houses and element houses.

Mobile cranes were produced from 1962, as an extension of the trailer production.

Steinar Thomassen created the first system wall for offices in the 1960s.

In the 1970s the growth in the glulam market is enormous, and the glulam plant that was established in 1959 was running at full capacity.

Moelven Mjøsbruket was the first sawmill in Moelven Industrier, which was established in 1980.

Moelven produced the deicers used for aircraft, and this technology is still in use.

The Viking Ship is the first building designed with curved glulam beams over longer spans.

The world’s longest wooden bridge, with a free span of 70.5 metres, opened in 2004.

Moelven started plywood production in 2011, and we currently have the only plywood factory in Scandinavia.

We’re building a new world record, a timber building more than 80 metres tall.