Silva compass

Silva Sweden AB
FoundedSweden
FoundersGunnar Tillander, Alvar Kjellström, Arvid Kjellström, and Björn Kjellström
ProductsCompasses
BrandsNexus, Brunton
ParentFiskars
Websitesilvasweden.com
Silva Field baseplate compass on a map

Silva Sweden AB is an outdoors products company that sells handheld compasses and other navigational equipment including GPS tools, mapping software, aircraft altimeters, and marine navigation tools. Silva's founders - Gunnar Tillander, Alvar Kjellström, Arvid Kjellström, and Björn Kjellström - invented the hugely popular orienteering baseplate or protractor compass used around the world for outdoors navigation.

Created in Sweden, the company exports worldwide, with marketing companies in Stockholm, Sweden, Mantes-la-Ville, France, Friedrichsdorf, Germany, and Livingston, Scotland. Silva compasses are produced for Silva by the HANZA Group in Suzhou, China.[1][2]

  1. ^ SILVA slutar med egen tillverkning och väljer HANZA som ny tillverkningspartner myNEWSdesk, 15 March 2018, retrieved 31 May 2019
  2. ^ Svensk Verstad Industri, HANZA vald tilltillverkningspartner av marknadsledande Silva, 15 March 2018, retrieved 31 May 2019