THE HITEX HISTORY
1982
1982
Company established by Jerk Jepson & Lars Runeman
1985
First prestige carpet order for Swedish goverment. The carpet is placed at the Swedish embassy in Riyad
The first robot was built
1986
First prestige carpet order for cruise ship
1987
Cooperation with Kinnasand
1989
The company was sold to Kinnasand
1991
The prototype for todays robot was made
1993
Mr. Jepson and Mr. Runeman bought the company back from Kinnasand
Industrial buildings acquired
1997
Major upgrade of the robot
2001
First participation in Domotex, Hanover. Exhibitor every year since
2002
The first robot was sold to Turkey, delivered in Januari 2003
2003
First participation in ITMA, Birmingham
Started cooperation with sales representative in Turkey, England/Ireland, Holland/Belgium
2004
Hitex AB founds the subsidiary
Hitex Robot Handtuft AB
2005
First participation in Domotex ASIA, Shanghai. Exhibitor every year since
First participation in ITMA asia, Singapore
Started cooperation with sales representatives in China
2006
Jerk Jepson sells his part of the company to Lars Runeman
2007
A prototype for a new robot is built
Started cooperation with sales representatives in USA
First participation in FloorTek, Dalton GA
2008
Started cooperation with sales representative in Iran
Release of HPR 3×2 and the HPR 4×3
2009
Release of the revolutionary dynamic yarn feed control
2010
Release of the revolutionary dynamic cut/loop control
2011
Prestiges order of 10 units to the worlds largest rug producer, Oriental Weavers, Egypt
Hitex starts co-operation with German company Convenient Air GmbH for custom VIP aircraft carpet
2012
Introduction of the Hitex EASY SPARE program to aviation industry
2013
Introduction of the Hitex E-CONDUCT system to aviation industry
Release of Hitex Data Analyzer. Software to compile production statistics from Hitex tuft robots
2014
Release of Hitex Tuft CAD. First real vector based deisgn software for robot tufting
2016
Filip Stålebjer, Markus Sandström and Johanna Porshammar new shareholders
2017
Hitex Robot Handtuft AB becomes Hitex Robot Tuft AB
2018
2019
2020
Lasse wins ‘Entrepreneur of the year’ 2019 at the annual regional awards.
2020
Release of new HMI – Operator 7
2020
