History

Dustcontrol AB was founded in 1972 by Johann Haberl, Mirko Purar, and Evert Kranz. All three had previously worked as engineers at Devac AB. Devac was a Swedish government owned research and development company. The main purpose of the company was to research the health hazards of stone dust generated when drilling. They had developed a machine to capture the hazardous stone dust at the source, hence they invented source extraction. When the company was liquidated some of Devac’s engineers decided to continue the source extraction project on their own. A new private company was founded - Dustcontrol AB.

However, the stone dust market was limited. Therefore they started to develop source extraction vacuum systems and dust extractors for other industries. The big break for Dustcontrol came in 1976 they received a big order from Swedish ASEA in Vasteras. As a result Dustcontrol expanded its business and moved to its own production facilities in Norsborg, just outside Stockholm in Sweden.

Sales grew rapidly the following years and the number of employees increased from under 10 to more than the double in only a few years. A big part of the manufacturing was outsourced at the time, but assembly, warehousing, and distribution was done in-house in Norsborg.

Today, the Dustcontrol Corporation consists of the Head Office in Sweden and subsidiaries in Germany, Austria, France, United Kingdom, USA and Finland. Dustcontrol is now a global supplier of source extraction systems with 130 employees and partners all over the world.