Nynas turns 90 today!
When Nynas first refinery was taken into operation in 1928, the focus was on providing the Swedish market with fuel. Today, our highly specialised oil products are included in everything from gearboxes and rubber to aircraft, roofs and roads.It all started in 1928. One of the great Swedish industrialists, Axel Axelsson Johnson, together with Charles Almqvist, were the men behind the building of Sweden’s first large scale oil refinery. At that time, oil was already big business in America. As the usage of cars had become even more popular in Sweden, the demand for asphalt and gasoline