Hällefors Municipality

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**Hällefors Municipality (*Kommun*)**
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	Seat	Hällefors
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	County	Örebro County
	Province	Västmanland
	Area Rank	989 km² 105th of 290
	Population Rank (2003)	7,688 245 of 290
	Population density	7.68/km²

Hällefors is a Municipality, Västmanland in Örebro County, close to both Värmland and Dalarna. It has beautiful surroundings with many different activities. Hiking on trails or in nature-reserves, fishing or canoeing in more than 400 lakes and waterways or biking on roads through deep forests.

1 History
2 Business
3 Towns
4 Sister cities
5 See also
6 External links

[edit] History

The area has traditionally been a mining district.

[edit] Business

Hellefors Works Co (Hellefors Bruks Aktiebolag), Ltd, a branch of the "Wargöns Aktiebolag' is one of the largest corporations in the middle of Sweden. It produces iron and steel, mechanical wood-pulp, sulphite- and sulphate pulp, sawn timber, joinery and box-boards. It mines, for its own requirements and for sale, ore from its own iron-ore fields. At a large number of its own power-stations, situated on the Black Creek ("Svartån") and its tributaries, the Company produces electrical energy which is widely distributed to its own works and outside customers. The Company also grows timber on a large scale, and an extensive private railway system runs right through the Company's forests which cover several hundred thousand acres in the parishes of Grythyttan and Hellefors in the government district of Örebro, of the parish of Gåsborn in the province of Värmland and the parishes of Järna, Äppelbo and Säfsnäs in the Kopparberg government district. This railway connects the different industrial centres, placing them in direct communication with the railway systems of the country and, in combination with the water-ways, facilitating scientific forestry. As a result of the present high prices of fuel, these cheap methods of transport make it possible to utilize all waste timber which has now to a great extent replaced the fuel that was formerly imported.

The general management is at Hellefors, where the Company has erected iron works, a wood-grinding mill, a sawmill, a box factory and joinery works. Sulphite- and sulphate pulp is manufactured at Fredriksberg, which is under the Gravendal management.

[edit] Towns

The small town Loka is located in the Hällefors municipality. They are bottling mineral water from their Loka Well, that once housed a spa. The water is sold in almost any store in Sweden, including Systembolaget.
Grythyttan is situated south of Hällefors and is a town with about 900 inhabitants. The town is famous for the Grythyttan Gästgivargård (restaurant) and the Grythyttan Academy for Culinary Arts.