Birger Abrahamson, Design Manager at Tekniska Verken, now Mälarenergi, starts the consulting company Fjärrvärmebyrån AB.
As early as the 1950s, the city of Västerås introduced a new technology for heating households, something called district heating. This was entirely new at the time, but the expansion of district heating grew rapidly, first in the larger cities and then, from the 1970s, outside those as well.
Birger Abrahamson naturally saw a business concept in this development and took three young engineers with him from Tekniska Verken and started Fjärrvärmebyrån.