page_title: Gimo, Sweden
section_title: Trade and industry today
hierarchical_section_title: Gimo, Sweden / Trade and industry today
caption_attribution_description: Svenska: Entré till Sandvik Coromant i Gimo.
context_page_description: Gimo is a small town situated in Östhammar Municipality, Uppsala County, Sweden with 2,765 inhabitants in 2017. The town is located about 20 km west of the Baltic Sea coast and 50 km north of Uppsala. Gimo is best known for the production plant of Sandvik Coromant with 1,500 employees.
context_section_description: Today the village is dominated by the hard metal industry in the form of Sandvik Coromant, which employs approximately 1,500 (2019). Extremely hard metal blades are manufactured here and exported throughout the world. The blades are manufactured from powdered metal that is sintered together under high pressure. The company's activities are divided into two plants, one manufacturing the blades themselves and the other manufacturing the holders in which the blades are housed.
caption: Sandvik Coromant in Gimo, Sweden
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