Wednesday, 31 August 2011

SEKO with a FARMA crane



In july we recieved some nice photos of this SEKO wood chipper along with a FARMA crane. The photos are sent to us from our dealer in Czech republic by the name of Fagus spol. Many thanks for sending us these great photos showing yet again the versatility of the FARMA crane.

Monday, 29 August 2011

Nice article in Mecanisation Forestiere

A couple of days ago we received the latest edition of the French magazine Mecanisation Forestier to the office and found to our great excitement a magazine spread about FARMA lumber trailer with focus on our great selling model CT 6,3 – 9. It was a good article where the journalist had meet with an owner and himself testing the trailer. As in every single article about the 9 ton trailer the excellent frame steering was in focus. The result was more than pleasing and along with our price on the French market it looks really great for the future!

Friday, 26 August 2011

A video from our Irish friends






Since a year ago we have new dealers Dave power plant LTD in Ireland doing a fantastic job selling and promoting FARMA on Ireland. They have attended several shows and the interest has been fantastic. The forestry industry in Ireland has over the years been of low interest to the Irish but due to the economical situation in the world the interest for forestry is on top. This nice video was sent to us from our dealers from which we have understood quite a few of these trailer combination of trailer and dumper has been sold.

Thursday, 25 August 2011

Nice present



Yesterday one of our really good welders who have decided to leave Fors MW brought this lovely present for our CEO Leif Fors. An axe for our forestry owner CEO what could be better suiting? Denis Slavgorodski who has been with us for more than 10 years is an excellent welder with skills for crafted details. All ladies at work have received lovely hand crafted roses in steel which he has made for women’s day. Denis will now move with his family to the North of Finland to work with hand crafting rather than welding. We thank Denis for his nice gift and wish him the best of luck for the future!

Wednesday, 24 August 2011

On this special day


We are wishing You time for all things that stir Your heart...

Happy Birthday, Svante!

A man of knowledge has left us

A few weeks ago we received the tragic information that one of our oldest dealers in Switzerland Andreas Sulser at company Neuhaus had left us in a fatal accident. Andreas was first and foremost a proud BIGAB dealer and his knowledge in the product was like no others. No one new BIGAB like Andreas. No one has probably spent us much time on customer oriented projects to develop the perfect trailer as Andreas. We had many discussions about the future of BIGAB and even though, to be honest, we did not always agree. We always listen because we knew those comments to be worth listing and paying attention to.

Neuhaus will continue its proud journey with Andrea’s wife and son carrying the tradition forward. You have our deepest condolences for your loss and our friendship for the future!

Monday, 22 August 2011

Royal welsh show



On the 18th of July BIGAB was present for the first time at the Royal Welsh show, set on the beautiful hills of Wales the Welsh weather did its usual thing and gave us some rain but it didn’t stop the crowds from coming.

On the stand of J. Davies and sons we had a BIGAB 14-17 with a Z crane and some grapples hooked up to mini diggers. The feedback was excellent on all our products with clients old as well as new visiting during the day

Fors MW would also like to thank the Davies family for their fantastic work with all our products and there kind hospitality during the show. We are looking forward to more sales from this fantastic dealership!

Tom Belton
Product manager BIGAB

Saturday, 20 August 2011

Celebrating Estonia

Today is a special day for Estonia and therefore also for us here at Fors MW. 20 years ago Estonia regained its self independence on this lovely August day after years of struggling throughout 50 years of occupation. The days ahead where chaotic, stressful and most of all emotional. No one knew if Gorbatjovs words of “perestrojka” and “glasnost” would show themselves to be more than just words. The tanks where moving into the city of Tallinn, Estonians gathered at the parliament only using their voices to fight this brutal regime and the Estonian folk songs filled the city. Today we celebrate Estonia, the Estonians and all those that in the fight for freedom were lost to communism.

We raise our glasses to you as a Swedish company that has been at place in Estonia for 20 years!

Friday, 19 August 2011

Visit from Brazil!





For a day in July we headed from our vacation to the head quarters in Saue to meet with our Brazilian dealers that where visiting for a day. We have worked with Motocana for more than a year and it has been a fruitful collaboration.


We took the traditional factory tour and spend time at going though the different products and most of all we spent time on discussing the interesting Brazilian market. It is always interesting to learn about new continents and new markets. We thank Motocana for their visit and for being such great teachers!

Thursday, 18 August 2011

Two days of planning



Back in Estonia for the coming week. We started up with a market meeting with our Swedish sales guys Calle and Göran since we have a dealer trip by the end of September for nearly 70 of our Swedish dealers. We will fly them from Sweden to Estonia for a visit to the factory along with some education. A lot of developments and investments have taken place since we last had a dealer visit from Sweden so it is about time. This is a large investment for Fors MW and a lot of planning goes into making these two days something special for our dealers. After these two days I am quite sure it will be something memorable for both us and our dealers.

Monday, 15 August 2011

Back in business!



So, after a short summer break are we back in business here at Fors MW and what a great business it is! Even though the economical crises cause shock waves in the world we see a stable and steady increase. More and more markets approach us and we see business opportunities in places we have never before thought off. You will learn more about this and so much more during autumn blogs.


Great fun is also the friendship and nice collaboration between Fors MW and the mayor wheel loader company Ljungby Maskin based in the dark woods of the Swedish region called Småland. This summer BIGAB hook lift system and Ljungby Maskin joined forces at different exhibitions to show the flexibility in both machines. The photo is from Borgeby Field days in June just outside Malmö in the southern parts of Sweden.

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