Personnel
Get to know the team here at ZRS or find your contact person.
Christer Larsson
Christer has been working with ZwickRoell products for over 10 years. He started as a service manager when he, among other things, developed many of our routines for accredited calibrations. Today Christer is CEO and salesman. He guides you in choosing the best product. When Christer is not working, you will find him with a guitar in his hand or in a workout at the gym or digging at rock concerts.
Stefan Andréasson
Stefan has worked in the materials testing industry for over 30 years. He started as a service engineer and later as a salesman for MTS. Since 1998 Stefan has been working with ZwickRoell and in 2004 he started the company ZRs. Stefan has a passion for helping companies ensure their quality by offering the best material testing systems. Stefan is educated in electronics and systems science. In his spare time Stefan is kayaking competitively and trying to make a comeback, going to the gym or running.
Miyo Schmidt
Miyo has a wide range of experience in administration, finance and service in various industries such as hotels, shipping, the trucking industry and the copy industry. This has resulted in a wealth of knowledge in a wide variety of fields that has come in handy more than once, as it turns out. You never know when your knowledge of hotels, ships, swap bodies or photocopiers will come in handy. In addition to this knowledge, she is an advocate for environmental issues, both at home and at work, and in her spare time she tries to get in some weight training and yoga.
Kari Vesa
Our service manager Kari is the person to turn to when you want service from us. Kari has many years of experience in material testing from the SSAB quality laboratory in Borlänge. He has deep experience of Zwick Roell products. Outside of work, Kari enjoys riding motorcycles and downhill biking. He is also responsible for Säters IF Triathlon.
Denis Van Wynsberghe
A practical theorist who works with both head and hands. In 1997 Denis moved here from France. With long experience in technical processes, he has a good understanding of technology in industry. Denis is motivated by high-tech innovations and sharing his knowledge. At ZRS he works with calibration, installation, technical service and training.
Hans Nyqvist
Hans has worked in various industries as a bus driver and with machine and material development. At ZRS, he is one of the service engineers who come and calibrate or perform service. He also assumes an administrative role as technical manager of our methods and standards.
On vacation, he does not hesitate to explore Europe with the caravan and Italy is a recurring favorite. Otherwise, he is a committed swimming parent and competition official.
Ulf Höglin
Ulf started his career already in high school where he studied to become a vehicle technical machine mechanic. He then worked for a long period at Stockholms Lokaltrafik as a mechanic. He also has many years behind him as a master mechanic and foreman in data traffic at Keolis, Swebus and Nobina, among others. And that's not all. He has also been driving trucks for over ten years and has installed alcolocks in the Swedish Road Administration's trucks and driver test cars. In his spare time, Ulf can be found at Borlänge flying club where he calls himself an aeronautical engineer. Music and model airplanes are other interests that take up most of his time.
Halvor Fossli
Halvor has a background in the process industry, with an education in process metallurgy at NTNU in Trondheim. Through his previous employment he has worked a lot with different materials. Quality assurance and HSE have also been central to what he has done in the past. He has worked with Zwick and their solutions for 13 years, and as a representative in Norway, he has gradually gotten away with most material problems. This applies to everything from testing fish meat and components to testing pure steel and aluminum. He has also sold solutions for load cells and strainers. He can help create a good solution for your testing needs.
Daniel Winkler
He has more than a decade of experience in servicing and calibrating materials testing machines and he is well known since he has worked with us during the years 2012 - 2014. When not trying to expand his knowledge in engineering, Daniel enjoys attending music concerts, honing his culinary skills for cooking and sitting in the garden.