Henrik, Bengt, Timothy, Jens and sitting Pontus and Adam. Joakim was not present.

The right item, at the right time, at the right quality!

May we introduce PSG?
Our Production Steering Group, which consists of Henrik Kopp, Bengt Lundblad, Timothy Enander, Jens Björk, Pontus Eriksson, Adam Ahlström and Joakim Glans, representing the departments of planning, bending, welding, assembly, production technology and warehousing.

You can tell by the name, but what does the group do more specifically?
To be able to make quick changes and minor corrections in our production and to share information so that everyone has an overall overview, a coordination group was needed that can convey and collect the needs of the various departments right now and in the slightly longer term. A group that disseminates information, distributes tasks and drives the business forward through continuous improvements and quality follow-up.

PSG has so-called Drive meetings every two weeks and work meetings in the weeks in between and for 10 minutes every afternoon a brief review is made of how the day has been. Then we go through what needs to be done tomorrow or in the days ahead to be able to deliver on time. Do staff, tasks or something else need to be redistributed, is there a risk of material shortages, something special that needs attention, are the morning's preparations ready and do sales, customers or suppliers need to be informed for some reason?

What is happening right now?
Right now, various improvements are underway in how we manufacture our products, in itself a constant work in progress, but now there are some specific products that are relevant to get specific places, so-called production cells, in our manufacturing process.

In addition, there is a rearrangement of some pallet racks and storage areas to be moved to adapt the business to our expanded manufacturing area.

We thank PSG for a little insight into your daily work. An important work that is carried out every day here at Alf Pettersson AB in Alingsås in order for us to be able to deliver the right article at the right time to our customers.

- Keep up the good work!

Today we meet Helena and Ida from our finance department. They keep track of both our customers' and our own finances. A prerequisite for companies to be able to expand as Alf Pettersson AB has done in recent years.

Ida Falkman Hermansson, who is our new financial manager, lives in a red house with white knots in Östadkulle, just outside Alingsås. The house is located on a small hill in the middle of a birch grove and Ida, her husband Jörgen and their children have lived there since the children were small.

Apart from gardening and cultivation, leisure interests include traveling and good food in the company of good friends. With the Gothenburg archipelago as one of their favorite destinations, especially in summer, they enjoy the sea, nature and good food together with good friends.

Ida came to Alf Pettersson AB in January this year and has a solid background in the economic area and has worked in various industries, including banking and real estate. Most recently in a wood processing company in Alingsås.

The most fun part of Ida's job, if you believe Ida herself, is to see the whole picture of the company and to keep the finances in order and to develop and streamline the financial processes.

What we colleagues didn't know before is that Ida is a master at kubb and she will prove it at Alf Petterson AB's summer event on June 21.

Ida's colleague Helena, lives in a newly renovated turn-of-the-century inspired villa in Alingsås with her husband Tony and their two teenagers, aged 16 and 19.

In addition to managing Alf Pettersson AB's administrative tasks, she has also managed various renovation projects at home. She has also found a newfound interest in gardening and cultivation and here at work there are many people who share her passion and who offer their cultivation tips.

Like Ida, Helena loves to travel. When asked about her dream destination, the answer is that it changes all the time, but right now a month-long tour of South America would be the most exciting - "Then Italy is always a favorite regardless of the time of year," Helena adds. Skiing in the Alps, hiking in Cinque Terre or just some food, a glass of wine on a lovely terrace overlooking the Mediterranean, it works with.

Another newfound interest is golf and she took a green card this fall and is now working on her handicap for the company's golf competition AP Masters. More about this competition after the vacation period.

Helena is an experienced economist and administrator who has been part of Alf Pettersson AB for over three years. She comes most recently from a company in the textile industry where she helped customers find the right products but also worked with public procurement, finance and various administrative tasks. She likes structure and orderliness.

When Helena considered changing jobs a few years ago, her plan was to find a company with good values and where her knowledge and experience could fit in, and the opportunity arose at Alf Pettersson AB. Helena thinks it is important to have fun at work. - "Together with your colleagues you become like a big family and it is important that you enjoyyourself". She found what she was looking for at Alf Pettersson AB.

Both Ida and Helena are committed to their roles at work and enjoy being part of a growing company, and the rest of us can see that they are a valuable asset to the company.

The girls were of course asked which dish they would have in their lunch box in the future if they had to choose only one dish. For Ida, it would be taco salad with mango chutney chicken and for Helen it would probably be pasta salad. - "Well, how boring that sounds...",Helena concludes the interview.

Boring or not, we can guarantee that these two girls are not bored at work.

Thank you for the interview and we are happy to have you in our team. We look forward to continued joint achievements in the future.



PS. For those of you who wonder where Karin Axelsson, our former CFO has gone, she is in the background but has chosen to reduce her involvement in the company now that Ida has taken over.

Eivaz is the colleague who, in addition to Alf and Jan-Krister, has worked the longest at Alf Pettersson AB. When he is not at work and brightening the days of his colleagues and customers, he is on the football field in his trainer's jacket.

When we sat down after our morning coffee, we started talking about football and Eivaz's knee surgery - but we'll come back to that later.

In the early days when Alf Pettersson AB was still in Vårgårda and consisted of two employees, Eivaz was offered a full-time job. The offer came from an acquaintance in football, specifically Jan-Krister. At the time, Alf Pettersson AB's premises were 288 square meters, they had a pallet truck, no pallet racks and everything was more or less a bit of a mess. Eivaz's job turned out to be versatile. He worked in the warehouse but also in sales, purchasing and invoicing. "In those days, we faxed mailings, 10 at a time, we couldn't type in more fax numbers".

Previously, he had worked in a variety of jobs such as a delivery tester at Autoliv, a resource at school and collecting sports results. What he learned early on was that he enjoyed working with people. So around 2010, when Alf Pettersson AB moved to Alingsås, Eivaz got a pure sales service and then the company had about 12 employees.

But, now back to football, an important input. Eivaz played a lot of football, as long as his body lasted, from Division 6 to Division 3. When he could no longer play because of his injuries - well, he started refereeing matches and coaching young people instead. He has been involved in refereeing at Gothia Cup in Gothenburg - but does not referee so often anymore - now his focus is on training Pojkar 09, where one of his sons plays.

Eivaz lives in Vårgårda with his wife Johanna and their two sons. Together with his parents, he arrived in Vårgårda in 1989 and should by now be considered a true Vårgårda resident?

When asked what he likes most about his job - he lights up and quickly answers "The feeling when the customer is satisfied". Helping and making sure everyone is happy is Eivaz's strength. The customer is always in focus and he enjoys developing cooperation with the company's key customers.

Eivaz's hidden talent is that he can eat sunflower seeds in his sleep and hold his breath for a very long time underwater. "The lungs and heart of an endurance athlete" he has been told several times, but in his younger days.

If he could only choose one dish to have in his lunchbox for the rest of his life, it would "easily" be Persian rice served with grilled shish kebab and grilled entrecote.

While Eivaz has shared his entire life story (which is about as long as his time at Alf Pettersson AB), Anders has sat next to him and listened with interest. Anders is our latest addition in sales, so this pair complements each other really well.

Anders has grown up on a stud farm, that is, horse breeding and breeding and more specifically, of Shetland ponies. Today he no longer lives on the farm, but still in the same area in Västra Bodarne, just outside Alingsås.

There he spends time with his partner Andrea and their two children, frolicking in the garden or engrossed on the sofa in front of a football match with his favorite team Johor Darul Takzim... and for those of us who don't know, he adds that Manchester City is actually his favorite team. Much to the chagrin of Eivaz, who has Liverpool close to his heart. An important note is that Anders started following City already in 2007, when Svennis took over as coach.

Growing up in the countryside, Anders' keen interest in animals is not surprising at all. When Anders and his twin brother Marcus came home from childhood vacations, their foreheads were pale from all the scouting on the ground - for insects - that they could add to their collection. Which eventually contained around 800 species.
When he wasn't rooting around in bushes, he played racket sports - preferably table tennis and tennis, but also some badminton and nowadays also padel.

Anders studied the science program at high school and economics at university and landed his first job as an inside salesman, not an economist. He stayed in that job for 16 years before he started looking for new challenges - specifically Alf Pettersson AB.

Today he has been working with us for just over a year, also as an inside salesman. He enjoys it very much and looks forward to coming to work and meeting his colleagues every day. And we must admit that we like him too. In the near future, Anders will join the Volvo team, which includes Jesper and Markus (as you could read about in our previous article).

In addition to all the knowledge Anders has about animals, nature and now also truck bodies, we can add that one of his hidden talents is juggling. We look forward to proof of this at the upcoming summer party.

When we asked him which lunchbox he would like to have for the rest of his life, he smiled and replied "double cheese from the donk - you have to have your guilty pleasures?". An obvious choice of lunchbox, we think.

Thank you Eivaz and Anders for a nice conversation!