Hydria Water

Hydria Water

Hydria Water traces its roots to AB Tage Björklunds Mekaniska Verkstad, a forge and metalworks shop founded in 1960, and VA Teknik, the engineering firm it serviced. The two businesses shared walls and eventually ownership inside what became family-owned Hydria Group, a Swedish industrial holding also active in ventilation. In 2022 the overlapping water-treatment brands VA Teknik and Mellegård & Naij consolidated under the Hydria Water name, bringing sedimentation scrapers, screening, and grit-handling equipment into a single portfolio. The firm designs and builds mechanical treatment systems for municipal wastewater plants, covering coarse and fine screening, grit removal and washing, and sedimentation. It also offers digital monitoring embedded directly in its machines. While Sweden remains the core market, recent installations stretch across the Nordics — a March 2026 project at Norefjell in Norway and a February 2026 grit-washer upgrade at Lidköping show active regional deployment. In March 2026 Hydria Water also installed intake machines made from up to 95 percent recycled stainless steel at Lilla Edet's treatment plant, a first for a Swedish facility. Hydria Water operates from a main plant in Borås, a competence center in Skövde, a service hub in Motala, and a sales office in Oslo. Operations sit inside Hydria Group, the parent that supplies shared IT, communications, and back-office functions across its industrial subsidiaries. In early 2023, Tobias Barrstrand succeeded Micael Barrstrand as CEO, completing a generational handover; the same year the firm booked its largest-ever single order, supplying equipment worth roughly SEK 60 million to the Sickla treatment plant in Stockholm. The firm's structural edge is its refusal to decouple design from manufacturing. Engineering and fabrication happen on the same campus, which shortens feedback loops and keeps institutional knowledge inside the company — an arrangement rare among Nordic water-tech peers that more commonly outsource production. Combined with its family-holding structure, that vertical integration lets Hydria Water price and iterate on multi-decade municipal contracts without third-party manufacturing risk.