Hyltebruk is a locality

Urban areas in Sweden

Urban area is a common English translation of the Swedish term tätort. The official term in English, used by Statistics Sweden, is, however, locality. There are 1,940 localities in Sweden . They could be compared with census-designated places in the United States.A tätort in Sweden has a minimum of...

 and the seat of Hylte Municipality

Hylte Municipality

Hylte Municipality is the only inland municipality of Halland County in southwest Sweden. The industrial town Hyltebruk is the seat of the municipality....

, Halland County

Halland County

Halland County is a county on the western coast of Sweden. It corresponds roughly to the cultural and historical province of Halland. The capital is Halmstad....

, Sweden

Sweden

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 with 3,742 inhabitants in 2005.

The town grew up around the paper mill

Paper mill

A paper mill is a factory devoted to making paper from vegetable fibres such as wood pulp, old rags and other ingredients using a Fourdrinier machine or other type of paper machine.- History :...

 owned by Hylte Bruks AB, which started its operation in 1907. A railway was built in 1909 connecting it with Torup on the Halmstad

Halmstad

Halmstad is a port, university, industrial and recreational city at the mouth of Nissan in the province of Halland on the Swedish west coast. Halmstad is the seat of Halmstad Municipality and the capital of Halland County...

-Nässjö

Nässjö

Nässjö is a locality and the seat of Nässjö Municipality, Jönköping County, Sweden with 16,463 inhabitants in 2005.-History:Nässjö was for a long time only a rural village with agriculture as the dominant occupation. The turning point was the construction of the Swedish railway system. The southern...

 line. The paper mill today has nearly 1,000 employees and is one of the greatest manufacturers of newsprint

Newsprint

Newsprint is a low-cost, non-archival paper most commonly used to print newspapers, and other publications and advertising material. It usually has an off-white cast and distinctive feel. It is designed for use in printing presses that employ a long web of paper rather than individual sheets of...

 in the world. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3636/is_199610/ai_n8751922

In the 20th century the town was popular due to the farming it had produced that had led to increased tourist sites and also now has opened several different hotels in its regions to attract more tourists in the spring and summer seasons.

See also

• Hylte Bruk a paper mill owned by Stora Enso
  Stora Enso
  Stora Enso Oyj is a Finnish pulp and paper manufacturer, formed by the merger of Swedish mining and forestry products company Stora and Finnish forestry products company Enso-Gutzeit Oy in 1998. It is headquartered in Helsinki, and it has approximately 29,000 employees...
  
  

Hyltebruk is also the location of the Headquarters of the AJ Group. The parent company AJ Produkter AB is a multi-channel b2b retailer of office furniture, materials handling equipment and storage solutions. The company was started in 1975 by the current Owner and Chairman, Bengt Anders Johansson.

External links

• Hylte Municipality
• http://www.virtualtourist.com/travel/Europe/Sweden/Hallands_Laen/Hyltebruk-191606/TravelGuide-Hyltebruk.html