History

The Swedock history starts…
with an annoyed and frustrated lift truck operator in a warehouse at a Swedish paper mill in 2001.
B-O Eriksson and his mates in the warehouse were risking their lives. Especially in wintertime, the conditions were hard. The docked trailers/lorries crept away from the dock levellers. It happened under summer conditions too but not so frequently then.

For years, many different solutions were looked at, tried, and evaluated. Established suppliers of safety solutions were invited but no product was really acceptable. Finally some homemade solutions too were encouraged and tried.
Anyway, nothing seemed to fulfil the basic needs of safety and ease of use. They always ended up in a situation standing there with the conventional chocks. In the wintertime, the chocks were shifted out to a winter type model. Even though these aggressive chocks, with spikes were to secure it all, incidents occurred far too often to be acceptable.
Also worth to mention that lashings were tested too, but they were to abandon that idea for safety reasons after a nasty incident.
Securing a lorry this way to the building means that nothing but the lashings are expected to hold it all back. No structures of a trailer or lorry are really dimensioned for this purpose. The axles underneath the vehicle could, but no lorry driver like to lay down in the dust and dirt for securing this way.
At loading, the peak force could stress any lashing beyond any imaginable figure. B-O remembers what happened that day, the last day a lashing was allowed to be used. A link from a broken lashing rocketed through the warehouse, and dented a sheet metal wall 60 meters away. Luckily no one was hit by that bullet.
B-O Eriksson then got a completely different idea, the SweDock idea, and started to think about it for some time. He could not see no reason it should not work so he ended up building a model at home. This model was good and people were immediately enthusiastic for the idea. Soon there was positive attention on this as there was a high potential for solving a long lasting problem in a smart way.

Product Development started in 2002.
Nybergs Maskin AB, manufacturer of the SweDock Elite Series, with their innovative engineers for research & development then got involved taking this product to what it is today.
Prototypes were produced, stress tested and followed up. This under the harshest conditions such as heavy loading 24 hours a day in snow and rain, interrupted only for challenging provocative tests and analyses.