History

Initially

Initially, our company was called AB Brunnshygien and carried out analyses of well water. These analyses were carried out in the 1950s at Svenska Miljöskyddsbyrån, a company still active today but no longer in the field of water analysis.
Some years later, AB Brunnshygien became Jowa AB, based on the names of the two owners Jowén and Wallentin. Jowa began to sell separators to Götaverken, Kockums and other shipyards in Sweden in the 1970s. With the decline of the local shipbuilding industry, resulting in the closure of one shipyard after the other, we focused on the export market in Denmark, Norway, Germany and the Netherlands. The strategy paid off and its activities expanded steadily from year to year.

New markets like rings on the water

When Jan Seehuusen took over the company in 1992, our activities were expanded to the rest of the world. New markets emerged like rings on the water in Japan, USA, Singapore and China. Today, Jowa’s principal markets are China and South Korea.
Large developing markets are Vietnam, often described as the “new China”, and India.  Jowa is already very active in these countries and closely follows the emerging South American market, which shows great potential in the offshore industry.

Subsidiaries

The largest market for Jowa’s marine products is China and our largest subsidiary, with 90 employees, is located in Shanghai and Shaoxing. Here we have a sales, service office and our fully equipped engineering workshop. In the workshop certain important components are manufactured and then sent to our factory in Goteborg, Sweden, where everything is assembled and tested.
Our USA subsidiary designs, manufactures, sells and services tank level measurement equipment. 
Our other subsidiaries’ local offices are located in the following cities and countries: Drammen in Norway, Rostock in Germany, Rotterdam in the Netherlands, Pusan in South Korea and Singapore.