An early image from down-town Örnsköldsvik

The 1940's
This family owned company was founded in 1948 by Gunnar Sjöblom (the man below wearing a hat. The image is from 1958).


Gunnar was a skilled inventor and constructor. Instead of working as a leader and constructor for Hägglunds, a large company in Örnsköldsvik he started his own business in his cellar. In the beginning the company name was Sjömek. The company started out doing R&D projects for Hägglunds. Soon his sons Lennart and Gösta joined. Sjömek grew and became Sjöblom & Söner AB.

 
Gunnar in his factory

• The 1950's

Gunnar's third son Bernt had cancer and they often visited him at the hospital in Örnsköldsvik. During the visits to the hospital, Gunnar, Lennart and Gösta realized the need for new medical products and that they where capable of constructing products that would help the hospital professionals to ease their work. In 1958 they started to design and manufacture medical equipment and furniture.

Boiling tea water in the good old days...

The staff and their beautiful cars.

The founder Gunnar explaining for a young audience how things works.
Lennart, the son of the founder and father of the present owner, Olow.

Chromium plating fascilities
In the beginning of the 1950's they bought a chrome plating facility and build their own manufacturing building.

Our first chromium plating fascilities

The boss and crew

1958 Sjöblom & Söner AB started to design and sell medical furniture.

The 1960's
Because of the great expansion, the company built a new factory in the beginning of the 1960's.

Gunnar and the foundation stone for the new factory



A new factory in the making.

Office staff in the 60's. The father and mother of the present owner at the far right and left.

The 1970´s
The business was growing and Sjöbloms delivered their products to the leading resellers of medical equipment to the Swedish Health care sector. All R&D where done in close relationship with medical professionals and always tested at different hospitals. This has been a tradition in the company since then.

The 1980's
1984 was the year when Sjöbloms Sjukvårdsutrustning AB, (Sjöbloms Medical equipment AB) became the company's Swedish name. The same year Sjöbloms became a supplier of medical furniture and equipment with its own sell staff, selling directly to the Swedish market. Skilled personnel both in R&D and manufacturing helped the company to grow and today their products can be found in every Swedish hospital and health care centres.

Lennart, Karl-Gunnar and Gösta Sjöblom

Lennart's son Olow started his own business 1989 called Tarsus Products AB. Being a masseur he constructed his own table and soon a couple of national athletic teams started to use the tables. The company profile was to design, manufacture state of the art portable massage tables. Today the company is one of the leading companies in this area and has increased its products to a large assortment of portable therapy tables and electric physiotherapy tables.

New chromium plating facilities, a robot welding machine and the mounting area.

The 1990's
Slowly but surely the range of products increased, with different models of stationary massage tables, electrically and hydraulically adjustable.

1997 the two companies became a group, Tarsus Products AB. The companies are led by a third generation Sjöblom. Tarsus Products AB are used as the company name outside Scandinavia.
Lennart Sjöblom with his son, the present owner, Olow.

The present and the future
Today Tarsus has delivered more than 40.000 portable tables. We are one of the leading manufacturers of portable aluminum tables. The development is an ever ongoing process, in quality as well as quantity.

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