Reliance Fibres Limited, based in London UK, is acquired

Ekman celebrates 100 year anniversary in China

Kwok Fung (Sino HK) Enterprise Ltd, based in Hong Kong, is acquired

Collaboration with Vyborgskaya Cellulose on the worlds’ largest wood pellet factory

The Ekman Group sales volume exceeds 3,000,000 tons

The Bioenergy Division is established

KC International is renamed Ekman Recycling

The Ekman family and the Ekman employees acquire Atle AB's and Skandia Invest AB's shares in Ekman

KC International, based in New Jersey USA, is acquired

The Recovered Materials Division is established

Ekman celebrates 200 years as an incorporated company

The Ekman Group sales volume exceeds 2,000,000 tons

Atle AB acquires MVI Ltd's Ekman shares and becomes the largest shareholder in Ekman

MVI Ltd, Skandia Investment, the Ekman employees and management and the Ekman Family acquire all shares in Ekman

Intercontinental Cellulose Sales Inc (ICS Inc), based in Florida USA, is acquired

Ekman becomes the world's largest independent sales organisation with focus on the forest industry, handling over 1,000,000 tons of products

Jan Liebig International is acquired

Ekman becomes a subsidiary of the Catena Group, listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange, when Catena acquires the Säfveån Group

Diversified operations comes to an end as Ekman shifts focus to pulp and paper trade

Protector Insurance Ltd is established, with main focus on transport and warehouse risk insurance

Ekman becomes a subsidiary of the Säfveån Group with major trading business being pulp, paper, iron, steel, and machinery and engineering products

Ekman imports textiles, clothing, watches, optics and consumer electronics, primarily from Japan and South East Asia

The end of World War II is the starting point for a very expansive period for Ekman and the turnover, in fixed prices, increases six times during the coming 20 years.

Ekman is reconstructed into a limited company, Ekman & Co Aktiebolag

The founding of the School of Economics and Business Adminstration in Gothenburg is made possible through donations from Ekman and other prominent families

Ekman is the first Swedish trading house operating in China through the founding of Ekman Foreign Agencies Ltd. and the opening of a branch office in Shanghai 

Ekman establishes an independent agency in Tokyo, transformed into Ekman & Co (Japan) Ltd in 1935

Ekman acquires the world renowned glassworks Orrefors

Ekman participates in the opening of the Transocean Line to South East Asia

The main building of the University of Gothenburg was inaugurated on 18 September 1907, solely funded by the Consul Oscar Ekman

Johan Wilhelm Ekman, son of Gustaf Ekman, designs and patents the Ekman Furnace

The founding of the University of Gothenburg is made possible through donations from Oscar Ekman and other Gothenburg merchants

Ekman is one of the pioneers as the Swedish Forest Industry begins exporting pulp and paper

Ekman shifts focus from the manufacture of iron to the production of sulphate pulp (at the Gustafsfors mill)

Ekman is participating in the financing of the Swedish Basic Industry and Oscar Ekman plays a prominent role when Skandinaviska Kredit AB, later Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken (or SEB) is incorporated in Gothenburg

Carl Edvard Ekman, son of Gustav Henric Ekman and brother of Gustaf Ekman, acquires Finspångs Bruk

Gustaf Ekman, son of Gustav Henric Ekman, invents the Ekman Welding Furnace, enabling Lancashire forge and rolling mill operations in Sweden

Ekman is part-owner in a merchant fleet consisting of ten ships

Gustav Henric Ekman and Gustaf Rudolf Prytz acquires the Lesjöfors Ironworks

Ekman & Co is founded by Gustav Henric Ekman, son of Peter Ekman III, and Gustaf Rudolf Prytz

Peter Ekman III continues his father's business with focus on trading herring

Peter Ekman II, son of Peter Ekman I, sets up a business in Gothenburg specializing in timber goods

Peter Ekman I, son of Daniel Joensson Ekman, specializes in timber goods and builds a sawmill

Daniel Joensson Ekman sets up a business selling iron and timber